2024年12月12日 · Ketamine infusion therapy is a promising ketamine treatment that helps certain mental health conditions, including treatment-resistant depression and anxiety disorders. Ketamine, originally developed as anesthesia, was first discovered to work similarly to antidepressants as early as 1975.

2024年8月27日 · Ketamine is used as an anesthetic for surgery, a treatment for depression (off-label), and is a drug of abuse. Includes ketamine side effects, interactions and indication

2024年9月23日 · Ketamine therapy may help with chronic pain that doesn't respond to other treatments. Here's how it works and what to consider before trying it.

Ketamine infusions have been used for decades to treat acute pain, but a recent surge in usage has made the infusions a mainstay of treatment in emergency departments, in the perioperative period in individuals with refractory pain, and in opioid-tolerant patients.

2025年1月29日 · Ketamine infusion therapy involves administering a fast-acting medication called ketamine through an intravenous line (IV) for the treatment of psychiatric disorders. 1 Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP), on the other hand, is a therapeutic approach that combines the administration of ketamine with psychotherapy. 2 In KAP, ketamine is usually administered …

2025年1月31日 · Ketamine causes what doctors call a “dissociative experience” and what most anyone else would call a “trip.” That’s how it became a club drug, called K, Special K, Super K, and Vitamin K, among...

Ketamine IV infusion is the most common and most effective type of ketamine therapy. Most of the research conducted has been on the ketamine IV infusion method. A secondary method is delivered via nasal spray. Racemic ketamine, which is administered intravenously, goes directly to the patient’s bloodstream.

Ketamine infusion therapy involves the administration of a series of infusions for the management of psychiatric disorders (e.g., major depressive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, acute suicidality).

Esketamine nasal spray, the s-enantiomer of ketamine, is FDA-approved for the treatment of treatment-resistant depression (TRD) in adults and depressive symptoms in adults with major depressive disorder (MDD) with acute suicidal ideation or behavior.

Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic used medically for induction and maintenance of anesthesia. It is also used as a treatment for depression and in pain management. [19] ... Intravenous ketamine infusion in treatment-resistant depression may result in improved mood within 4 hours reaching the peak at 24 hours. [22] ...