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Is Off-label repeat prescription of ketamine as a rapid antidepressant safe? Controversies, ethical concerns, and legal implications

BACKGROUND: Depressive disorders are a common form of psychiatric illness and cause significant disability. Regulation authorities, the medical profession and the public require high safety standards for antidepressants to protect vulnerable psychiatric patients. Ketamine is a dissociative anaesthet...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Melvyn W., Harris, Keith M., Ho, Roger C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4714497/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26768892
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12910-016-0087-3