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Efficacy of Deep Anaesthesia With Isoflurane as a Fast-response Antidepressant Agent

NCT04171193

RandomizedParallel-groupOpen-labelTreatment

Summary

In this study the investigators will submit patients with treatment resistant depression to deep anesthesia with isoflurane to get 15 minutes of cortical burst suppression on electroencephalogram, once a week for six weeks. The follow up will be for 6 months. The aim is to evaluate the change in depression severity during the entire period.

Timeline

Start
2019-12
Primary completion
2020-09
Completion
2020-12

Drugs

EvaluationDrugModalityDoseRoute
Subject Isoflurane Other / unclassified 2.4 % Inhaled
Subject Sertraline Small molecule Oral