Dr. Sunjay Gupta, MD, science and physician reporter for CNN just had a very interesting piece on the impact on Ketamine on depression, and suicide. You can watch the video below or on the CNN website.
Sub-anesthetic doses (lower than we anesthesia providers would use to put you to sleep) of Ketamine has been coined the greatest discovery to occur in mental health care in the last decade. We are thrilled that it is getting some mainstream attention, the more people know the more we can help!
Dr. Ladan Eshkevari, CRNA, PhD, FAAN, is the founder and co-CEO of Avesta Ketamine & Wellness and a Professor Emeritus at Georgetown University, where she spent more than 25 years on the faculty and served as Professor and Program Director of the nationally ranked graduate Nurse Anesthesia Program in the School of Nursing & Health Studies. A certified registered nurse anesthetist and physiologist, she brings deep expertise to the safe, monitored delivery of ketamine and Spravato, and has overseen in-clinic ketamine care at Avesta since inception. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.