Erschienen in:
01.12.2015 | Suicide (MS Goodman, Section Editor)
“Does Ketamine Have Rapid Anti-Suicidal Ideation Effects?”
verfasst von:
Laili Soleimani, MD, Alison Welch, MD, James W. Murrough, MD
Erschienen in:
Current Treatment Options in Psychiatry
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Ausgabe 4/2015
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Excerpt
Suicide is defined as an act of violence toward oneself with the intention to die. Suicide completion is a prominent cause of worldwide mortality, and its prevention poses a major challenge to the psychiatric and world health communities. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that as of 2013, suicide was the tenth major cause of death—totaling 41,149 deaths in the USA (CDC) [
1]. Despite a growing armamentarium of psychiatric medications to treat mood disorders, effective pharmacologic interventions for suicidality continue to elude us. Statistics demonstrate no meaningful decrease in the rate of suicide [
2,
3]. In fact, within the USA, there has been an alarming 28.4 % increase in the age-adjusted suicide rates (from 13.7 to 17.6 per 100,000) for adults aged 35–64 years between 1999 and 2010 (CDC [
4]), as well as a 2.4 % increase in the age-adjusted death rate due to suicide in 2012 compared to 2011 [
5]. …