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Podcast: USHMedstudent
Episode: The cross section of perisurgical anesthesia and psychiatry with attention to Ketamine
Description: Thank you Sarah Tang, OMS III and Spencer Nakamoto, OMS III for developing this podcast! Your patience with last minute changes is greatly appreciated! This podcast tackles the topic of perisurigical anesthesia in the setting of mental illness. We discuss the considerations for patients on psychiatric medications and how that may affect anesthesia. We spend additional time discussing the discrepancy between review articles and published trials. High yield information is discussed with regards to NMS and Serotonin Syndrome. This was originally intended to be a lead-in to the discussion of PTSD treatment with Ketamine (stay tuned!). The way our r...