Alright, seeing more and more of these not run by psychiatrists. Have seen some ABEM folks running them. Some of them claim to have some advance training in addiction/psych..... most don't. Not sure how I feel about it. On one hand, it seems ripe for easy money and you may be able to benefit some folks. Most of us feel pretty safe with ketamine given how frequently we use it in the ED. I can't get past a few things though.
1)Scope of practice
- Are we qualified to treat people with a psychoactive drug for mental health disorders? Sure, it's generally safe but...
2)Safety
-The drug isn't without risk. Most hospital policies still require an anesthesiologist or ED MD and RT to be in the room to administer more than a sub dissociative dose. I can't really find much info on what kind of dosing these folks are doing but, in a pay to play environment I'd guess they are being heavy handed.
3)Future ramifications
-If any of ya'll are younger out there or have friends that are in other fields...ketamine is getting pretty popular as a recreational drug. While it isn't known to be harmful outside of rare instances like laryngospasm etc, I feel like this could be a ticking time bomb effect if **** goes sideways and the public comes after these after some bad outcomes. That being said, we are in a time of increasing deregulation for psychedelic therapeutics with mushrooms etc.
1)Scope of practice
- Are we qualified to treat people with a psychoactive drug for mental health disorders? Sure, it's generally safe but...
2)Safety
-The drug isn't without risk. Most hospital policies still require an anesthesiologist or ED MD and RT to be in the room to administer more than a sub dissociative dose. I can't really find much info on what kind of dosing these folks are doing but, in a pay to play environment I'd guess they are being heavy handed.
3)Future ramifications
-If any of ya'll are younger out there or have friends that are in other fields...ketamine is getting pretty popular as a recreational drug. While it isn't known to be harmful outside of rare instances like laryngospasm etc, I feel like this could be a ticking time bomb effect if **** goes sideways and the public comes after these after some bad outcomes. That being said, we are in a time of increasing deregulation for psychedelic therapeutics with mushrooms etc.