Hospice News June 29, 2024
Two ketamine-assisted therapy projects are examining ways to develop training and collaboration models for utilization among palliative care patient populations.
A growing body of research is uncovering the potential benefits of ketamine therapies to help with symptom management. But greater understanding of the drug and its impacts is needed to help palliative care providers and other health professionals guide patient experiences, according to Dr. Michael Fratkin, board president of the Institute for Rural Psychedelic Care. Fratkin is also a palliative care specialist at Humboldt Center for New Growth.
“Ketamine can be a safe, effective, workable and tolerable medicine to explore over these next few years to better understand its healing potential in existential distress – something we have very little...