In current times, depression is one of the most common mental illnesses occurring in children as well as adults. Over the years, depression was treated as yet another "hormonal issue" "mood swings,"; but today, due to the worldwide awareness, people have realized that depression is much more than that and that it is a "real" illness that needs "real" therapy to get cured of it. The most common treatment given to people who are diagnosed with clinical depression is usually anti-depressants, tranquilizers, etc.; however, recent studies at California Medicals have shown that IV ketamine therapy yields quicker results than these anti-depressants.
In clinical depression, the faster the patient seeks treatment, the lesser chances that they progress to the severe form of the illness; suicide, self/property harm are prevalent in patients who are not correctly diagnosed or who are not quickly treated. Hence to reduce such more incidences, the researchers of California Medicals suggest prescribing IV Ketamine treatment.
It is an FDA-approved numbing (anesthetic) medicine popularly used worldwide for over 50 years. However, its benefits and role in treating depressive disorders have been studied for 20 years.
Though efficient, Ketamine IV cannot be used as the first line of treatment for depression and anxiety; however, it can be studied suggest that they can definitely be used in patients showing severe life-threatening symptoms of depression, anxiety, post-traumatic disorder who did not efficiently benefit from the conventional drugs and counseling therapies. Thus, like the other non-conventional therapies at California Medicals like transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), IV ketamine therapy is also used when the conventional treatments are unable to bear results. Hence, some of our researchers also term IV Ketamine therapy as a breakthrough in the current times, owing to its super-quick action and long-lasting effects.
As ketamine has to be given intravenously, the patient must be admitted to inpatient care. Once admitted, IV ketamine is administered to the patient at a slow and constant pace; this ensures that the patient mood is elevated as the medicine reaches the concerned areas of the brain controlling your mood and behaviors. Our experts take utmost care of you throughout the treatment.
As discussed before, Ketamine infusions show results within hours after administration. Though the exact mechanism is not known, some of our experts suggest that this rapid response may be due to an increase in the levels of glutamate (a neurotransmitter that helps strengthen and restore vital neural connections that get affected during depressive disorders)
Plenty of our researchers have over and over the time studied and concluded that ketamine infusion displays high rates of success.
It is not a type of treatment that gives quick results and also leads to rapid relapse; just one complete therapy with ketamine infusion is good enough for the depressive symptoms ever to return; this could be due to permanent brain changes that ketamine infusions cause over the course of just one treatment cycle.
So get the healthiest mind with the most effective treatments at California Medicals. Our sole mission is to create a world with great mental health; that's why we ensure you with the treatments that provide you with mental wellbeing and happiness.