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Renuka Prasad

1 paper in the library · publishing 2018

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Ketamine-based anesthesia improves electroconvulsive therapy outcomes: a randomized-controlled study.

Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie June 2018 Jonathan J Gamble, Henry Bi, Rudy Bowen et al.

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a common and debilitating condition that can be challenging to treat. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is currently the therapeutic gold standard for treatment-resistant MDD. We tested our hypothesis that ketamine-based anesthesia for ECT results in superior improvement in treatment-resistant MDD outcomes compared with propofol-based anesthesia. Patients with...