Ketamine for Pain Management, Treatment of Depression
Ketamine may alleviate depression, pain, and adverse effects associated with opioid treatment, and may thus represent an attractive adjunct therapy for pain management.
Ketamine may alleviate depression, pain, and adverse effects associated with opioid treatment, and may thus represent an attractive adjunct therapy for pain management.
The mental health of physicians has been neglected for so long that it has become a national epidemic.
Obesity and sex are differential predictors of acute remission for commonly used antidepressant medications.
Death and serious outcomes resulting from overdose or poisoning from drugs used to treat depression more than doubled during the last decade and a half, found a recent study, with amitriptyline topping the list.
Despite the clear role of culture in suicidal behavior, it is often neglected by clinicians.
“The main changes needed in medical education are primarily structural with pass/fail grading and reduction in class time and amount of information being taught.”
Preexisting psychiatric and behavioral conditions and psychoactive medication use are associated with subsequent claims of prescription opioids.
Physicians should take action to standardize care-seeking within their organization, including encouraging colleagues to take time off for vacation and sick leave.
“Having 5 or more health systems affected by disease over the study period increased by >11 times the risk of suicide, and the presence of this multiplicity of morbidities accounts for about ¾ of the deaths by suicide [in the current sample],” the authors wrote in their publication.
“The clinician’s role is to understand the nature, magnitude, intensity, and frequency of that pain.”