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KETAMINE FOR TREATMENT-RESISTANT UNIPOLAR AND BIPOLAR MAJOR DEPRESSION: CRITICAL REVIEW AND IMPLICATIONS FOR CLINICAL PRACTICE
- Source :
- Depression and Anxiety. 33:698-710
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Hindawi Limited, 2016.
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Abstract
- There is an urgent need for more rapidly effective pharmacotherapies for major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder (BP) that are efficacious and tolerable for depressed patients who respond poorly to conventional treatments. Multiple controlled trials have now demonstrated a rapid, nonsustained antidepressive response to a single intravenous infusion of ketamine. Early controlled studies of intranasal or serial infusion therapy appear promising. The effective dose for depression is lower than the typical anesthetic doses, and side-effects are generally mild and transient. The data investigating the adjunctive use of concurrent ketamine in the course of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for depression do not suggest efficacy or tolerability. The therapeutic potential of ketamine has stimulated considerable excitement among clinicians, patients, and industry, and has led to the increasing use of ketamine as an off-label substitute for ECT and other antidepressive treatments. This clinical review of ketamine will assess the evidence-based use of ketamine and initial clinical implications of further development of a potentially novel treatment for rapid reduction of symptoms in depressed patients.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_treatment
medicine.disease
030227 psychiatry
03 medical and health sciences
Psychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology
0302 clinical medicine
Electroconvulsive therapy
Infusion therapy
Tolerability
Anesthesia
Anesthetic
medicine
Major depressive disorder
Ketamine
Bipolar disorder
Psychology
Treatment-resistant depression
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10914269
- Volume :
- 33
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Depression and Anxiety
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........ed131ba194d187f2407862b64ad22535