@Ivorythumper said in Ketamine:
@George-K
So is not giving a damn about the pain the same as relieving depression?
I’m confused about the dosage here.
Giving the dose listed in the article during a c-section - 0.5 mg/kg is a good analgesic dose. I have no idea what effect it has on depression, particularly because it's a one-of, and I don't know how these people felt a week later. But, it's a small enough dose to be acutely useful, and chronically insignificant (as a one-of, as I said). That dose, given quickly - as opposed to via infusion over 40 minutes, repeated - though the same dose, probably has different pharmacodynamics. For example, I can give you 200 mg of propofol over an hour, and nothing will happen, though you might get a bit drowsy. If I give it in 30 seconds, you'll stop breathing.