Drug profile
The FDA adverse-event record for Ketamine Hydrochloride
1,757 adverse-event reports submitted to the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine reference Ketamine Hydrochloride. See the species affected, top reactions, and outcomes below.
- 1,757
- adverse-event reports
- 24.0%
- death-coded share
- Cat
- most-reported species
- 340
- INEFFECTIVE, ANESTHESIA - top reaction
Active Ingredients
Administration Routes
Species Affected
Most Affected Breeds
Most Reported Reactions
Outcome Breakdown
Ketamine Hydrochloride Adverse Event Insights
1,757 reports name Ketamine Hydrochloride; 422 recorded a death outcome (24.0% of reported events, not a population-level mortality rate). Active ingredient: Ketamine Hydrochloride. Administration routes: Unknown, Intramuscular, Intravenous, Intraperitoneal.
By species: Cat (673 reports), Dog (499 reports), Horse (276 reports). By breed: Unknown (254), Domestic Shorthair (200), Domestic (unspecified) (190).
Leading clinical signs: INEFFECTIVE, ANESTHESIA (340), Death (330), Lack of efficacy - NOS (188), INEFFECTIVE, SEDATION (185). Outcome, 1,239 coded reports: Recovered/Normal leads at 50.1%.
Read these counts as reporting volume, not risk: per our methodology, a widely-prescribed drug will rack up more raw FDA reports in a given year than a rarely-used one at an identical true rate, so we recommend comparing within similar-exposure products rather than across the full 2025 catalog.
Source: FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine openFDA Animal & Veterinary Adverse Events (CVM AER) · 2025
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