The psychiatric doctor Bernardo Carricart with a colleague who is the professional Carlos Benavente Pinto are working on a unit of refractory pathologies, which aims that a patient who has passed through various different medications and therapy Used in the day to day, ”explained the interviewee, who enlisted that ketamine is being used, which is an anesthetic drug that they use in subanesthetic doses, that is, the patient does not have to be anesthetized:“ Ketamine has an antidepressant effect in a few hours. From ketamine, ”he explained, adding that this treatment is performed at several points and pointing out that, in general, anti depressive may take at least a month to take effect, but ketamine works in a few hours in the patient, being able to have a marked improvement. Of course there are sessions and to hold a base treatment.
On the other hand, he shared that in this center, genetic tests will be applied that, in his words, “is what is coming in medicine.” It has to do with a type of personalized medicine since through a test it will be able to determine which medication is better for a particular person and what adverse effects can generate and not choose blindly and without knowledge a medication, but to point to the genetic characteristics of a person.
