Intranasal Esketamine: New Hope for Suicidal Patients?

Topics: Depression | Esketamine | Fast-acting | Free Articles | Intra-nasal | Ketamine | Management | Psychopharmacology | Suicidality

It’s likely your patients have asked you about esketamine. The buzz is that it’s a rapid-acting miracle cure for suicidal depression. Dr. Thomas Insel, former director of NIMH, declared that ketamine “might be the most important breakthrough in antidepressant treatment in decades” (www.nimh.nih.gov/about/directors/thomas-insel/blog/2014/ketamine