The Curious Case of Ketamine: Is Less Often More Effective?
New research findings in collaboration with Dr. Irfan Handoo challenge my understanding of Ketamine
Dr. Irfan Handoo is a brilliant physician who lives in Kansas City. He works very hard. He's dedicated to his patients' well-being to a degree might boggle the imagination of most. I've been pleased to know Irfan for several years, and we've worked together on at six publications already. I wasn't ready for my colleague upending my understanding of how IV Ketamine should be delivered.
If you want to see Dr. Handoo, here is the link:
Except— that's what happened.
The conversation started when Dr. Handoo told my co-author, Amna Aslam, MPH, about his data on ketamine.
Handoo’s TMS data was exciting enough: together, we had a whole series of patients who had been previously treated with ECT, and ketamine, and regular rTMS, and whose depression subsequently remitted with dTMS1— a variant of the technology using a different coil geometry, both broader and deeper than the figure-of-eight coils first demonstrated effective in 2008. We looked at our data here at Radial and found we also had…