Re:Ketamine for the acute treatment of severe suicidal ideation
by btach on Monday March 14, 2022 @09:11PM
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That's interesting. I am only speaking from experience working in the ED as an RN and do not have any experience with studies like this that give medications that are not positively known (by myself). What you (and others say) actually does make sense. Thanks.
For orally dosed RCTs, often the pill making process is the way the blinding is done -- i.e. they're either in brightly-coloured gelcaps or a film or sugar coating. If it is a double-blind RCT it must be double blind. All of this will have been explicitly examined in the ethics statement for a trial and very, very prescriptively laid out.