Antidepressant, Ketamine, Fast-acting, Depression, SafetyMajor depression is a serious psychiatric disorder and remains a leading cause of disability worldwide.Conventional antidepressants take at least several weeks to achieve a therapeutic response and this lag period has hindered their ability to attain...
There are real risks associated with any version of ketamine. It is an anesthetic. If you get enough of it, you will become completely sedated—that's always a risk associated with it. But it has other physiologic effects on heart rate and blood pressure that can be pronounced. For most ...
The use of sedatives in half these incidents has never been reported, as scrutiny typically focuses on the actions of police, not medics.Elijah McClain’s2019 death in Aurora, Colorado, was a rare exception: Two paramedics were convicted of giving McClain an overdose ...
The practice of using ketamine to subdue people outside hospitals began in 2004 when a disturbed man scaled a fence, cut himself with a broken bottle and paced along a narrow strip of concrete on a Minneapolis highway bridge. The man was in danger of falling into traff...
To determine whether ketamine use for tracheal intubation, compared to other sedative use, is associated with a lower risk of post-intubation hypotension in hemodynamically-unstable patients in the emergency department (ED), we analyzed the data of a pro
Likewise, in the propensity-score matching analysis, the patients with ketamine use also had a significantly lower risk of post-intubation hypotension (OR 0.47 [95% CI, 0.31–0.71] P<0.001). Our observations support ketamine use as a safe sedative agent for intubation in hemodynamically-unstable...
Dozens of deaths reveal risks of injecting sedatives into people restrained by police Ryan J. Foley, Carla K. Johnson and Shelby Lum, Associated Press Apr 27, 2024 3:07 AM Demetrio Jackson was desperate for medical help when the paramedics arrived....
but so be it. Teenagers have always resisted parental concerns about their risky activities. Last time I checked, that didn’t keep us from trying to stop them from using dangerous drugs. Why should testosterone (a schedule III drug in the same category as Suboxone and ketamine) get a free...
using an online national cross-sectional survey conducted in 2014–2015. Socio-demographic characteristics, smoking behavior, substance use, homosexual stigma and outness, HIV-related risk behavior, and HIV status were obtained. Logistic regression analyses were performed to evaluate predictors of current...
Ketamine Rohypnol (date rape drugs) PCP Anabolic Steroids Anabolic steroids have no mood-altering or intoxicating properties, but they can still be misused. Using anabolic steroids to enhance performance or develop muscles and strength is abusive because of thenegative side effectsof steroid use. ...