Discover The Benefits of Ketamine Infusion Therapy
Save Minds, a division of Smart Clinics Family Medical Centres, provides ketamine infusion procedure for depression, and in particular, for those patients that may have resisted previous treatments. It happens that the number of people who do not respond to antidepressants represents about 30% of all depressed people on average. Considering that antidepressants are specifically designed to target and improve an individual’s basic ability to function – a non-success rate of one in three is significant.
It is also known that, save for ketamine infusion treatment for depression, there hasn’t been a major breakthrough in pharmaceutical treatment for depression for some time. Experts within the field, particularly those who specialise in depression and suicide, agree that there is a need to develop a way of supporting patients feel better more rapidly than the typical wait time of 4 – 8 weeks that traditional antidepressants take to affect.
Assessment
It includes a step-by-step guide on how to obtain referrals, what are the documents needed, its indications and contraindications, and determine how quickly you respond to ketamine.
Risk & Benefits
The use of ketamine as an off-label drug has many benefits to offer. Learn more about these benefits & potential side effects you need to watch out for after each treatment.
Treatment
We assist our clients to ensure they are as comfortable as possible throughout the procedure. Our clinic is equipped to monitor heart and respiratory status while undergoing treatment.
FAQ
If you have questions about the assessment, treatment, risks, and benefits of ketamine, we can assure you we have the answers. Check our FAQ section.
Ketamine Offers A Wide Range of Benefits
Ketamine continues to attract broad attention is as it has been shown to have a rapid effect on most patients, especially those that have shown resistance to other forms of treatments for depression. One dose of ketamine infusion treatment for depression will typically kick in within hours of its administration, with its subsequent benefits felt for up to one week. Doctors in the US, due to its rapid onset, will often administer ketamine to emergency room patients who have attempted to suicide.
Depression is considered complex because of how diverse it is – symptoms typically exist in a spectrum; however, ketamine appears to present patients with wide-ranging benefits across these symptoms. In fact, it has been shown to influence positive effects in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (‘PTSD’), anxious bipolar depression, suicidal thoughts, and loss of pleasure (or anhedonia).
Client Testimonial
“I’m convinced that ketamine treatment under the care of Dr.Yadhu will save my life. I would encourage anyone who has experienced something akin to what I have, to meet with Dr.Yadhu and listen to what he has to say. Doing so will likely save your mind.”
How To Get Started
Consultation
This involves taking the client through a step-by-step explanation of how they can obtain the referrals and documents required, the various indications and contraindications contained within them. Most importantly, at Save Minds, we will also, and together with the client, determine how quickly the latter will respond to ketamine.
Education
The client is then educated on the various risks that are posed by ketamine. As the treatment targets the neurotransmitters within the synapses, they pose some side effects, many of which are manageable. The client is then walked through the benefits of ketamine infusion therapy.
Treatment
Whilst administering treatment, we ensure that you, the client, will be as comfortable as possible. We administer treatment at our state-of-the-art clinic that is equipped with heart monitors that also monitor respiratory status, covering all paramedic bases.
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Our clinics provide patients with paid-for ketamine infusion for depression services – these are particularly helpful for those patients that suffer depression and have also resisted other types of treatments administered to them by either a psychiatrist or a GP. In essence, the service is intended to tackle depression that is non-responsive to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (‘SSRIs’) or other care plans for patients with severe depression. With more than 300 million people globally suffering some sort of depression, it is by far the leading mental disorder condition.