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Northwestern Medicine Ketamine Infusion Clinic
Better Edge : A Northwestern Medicine podcast for physicians
English - January 05, 2024 07:00 - 17.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHealth & Fitness northwestern medicine better edge research Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In this episode of the Better Edge podcast, Brandon Hamm, MD, assistant professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern Medicine, provides an overview of the Ketamine Infusion Clinic at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and how ketamine therapy works. He discusses how the clinic was formed and how patients are referred and evaluated for mood disorder diagnosis to be candidates for ketamine therapy. Dr. Hamm also goes into detail about the induction and maintenance period for ketamine therapy and the metrics used to measure its success.