Intravenous lidocaine was first shown to relieve cancer pain in the 1950s. Since then, intravenous lidocaine has been shown also to relieve pain after a wide variety of surgeries. Ketamine is a non-opioid analgesic that has been shown to be safe and efficacious in very low doses when combined with morphine for post-operative pain control . A review of ketamine for postoperative pain control recently completed by Dr McKay has shown that ketamine is most efficacious when given after a painful surgical insult, and that preoperative bezodiazepines prevent ketamine-induced hallucinations (submitted for publication). Groudine, in patients undergoing radical retropubic prostatectomy, determined that intravenous lidocaine infusion intraoperatively decreased the duration of postoperative ileus, decreased the pain scores postoperatively, and resulted in a 50% reduction in morphine use, and a 20% reduction in hospitalization time. This was felt to be due to early ambulation, earlier times to passing gas and having a bowel movement, and faster advancement to a full diet and oral analgesics. Lidocaine plasma levels were well below toxic range.