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How Ketamine Infusion Therapy Works to Treat Depression, Anxiety, and Other Mood Disorders

Written by ketamine@dmin | Sep 15, 2017 12:00:00 AM

Major depressive disorders, severe anxiety, and other mood disorders commonly inflict women and men of today. In fact, the number of patients suffering from psychiatric health conditions now surpasses those affected by physical ailments. Traditional treatments such as antidepressants and psychotherapy are unable to provide the desired relief in many cases.

In recent years, Ketamine Therapy has emerged as a promising alternative with safe, proven and effective results to treat conditions such as depression, anxiety and mood disorders. Ketamine Infusion Therapy offers numerous advantages over conventional antidepressant drugs, and is now recommended by many medical professionals to patients who suffer from psychiatric conditions.

The amazing and judicious Ketamine Clinics of Los Angeles, led by dedicated anesthesiologist Dr. Steven L Mandel, provides ketamine infusion treatments to address depressive disorders, anxiety and other pain and mental health conditions. The reliable and righteous Dr. Mandel offers a customized treatment approach after evaluating the specific condition of a patient. He enjoys a success rate as high as 83 percent in treatment patients of depression.

Patients in Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Orange County, California, and surrounding communities in this part of the country have an opportunity to receive Ketamine Therapy in a state of the art treatment environment from Dr. Mandel.

The customized treatment approach adopted by Dr. Mandel allows him to have a success rate as high as 83 percent among his patients suffering from depression. He provides ketamine infusion treatments to patients in Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, California, and surrounding locations.

 

Low Dose Treatments

The safety profile of Ketamine Infusion Therapy for treating psychiatric disorders is very high because the therapy involves very low doses of ketamine. The average dose of ketamine in this therapy may be only about one-fourth of what is generally administered to a patient during general anesthesia prior to a surgery.

As a result, ketamine can be delivered through IV in an office setting, and the patient can return home after the treatment without having to undergo significant downtime. Side effects of this therapy are negligible compared to what a patient under general anesthesia will go through for a few hours after the surgery is completed.

Low dose ketamine infusions are typically prescribed to treat depression, anxiety and other mood disorders if the patient has not achieved successful outcomes to other forms of treatment. Ketamine treatment can provide successful results even where the patient has previous tried multiple other treatments or has been labeled as treatment resistant. In some cases, ketamine may be used against depression even as an early line of defense.

 

Advantage Over Antidepressants

With traditional antidepressant drugs, the patient may have to wait for weeks or months before the drug reaches therapeutic levels and provides relief. Even then, there is no assurance that sufficient relief will be obtained against depression. Ketamine Infusion Therapy, on the other hand, produces rapid relief, sometimes within a few hours.

By the second treatment session, most patients will be able to tell whether they have achieved considerable relief against their condition and whether the treatment is working. Dr. Mandel receives patients from Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Orange County, California, and other suburbs and towns in this area of The Golden State for ketamine infusion treatments.