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Hi! Jim Phelps here for the Psychopharmacology Institute with a Quick Take. Today, we’ll look at five different studies over the next 25 or so minutes. Here we go!
The first is a new meta-analysis of ketamine as a potential means of addressing suicidal ideation, perhaps, for example, in the emergency department to prevent having to hospitalize a patient. Is that a potentially viable strategy? Does ketamine have enough clinical effect relative to a controlled procedure to rely upon in that kind of a setting, as an emergency treatment of suicidal ideation? Let’s take a look.
This is a meta-analysis from Samuel Wilkinson and colleagues that was published in the *American Journal of Psychiatry* in 2018. This is kind of a replication of an earlier meta-analysis that found that ketamine does have a specific antisuicide effect. Let’s look at that question again with these new data.
First of all, the
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