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A fractured hip during electro-convulsive therapy

European Journal of Anaesthesiology, 1999
Bone injury while undergoing electro-convulsive therapy is thought to be rare. We report a case of hip fracture during treatment which was associated with osteoporosis. Patients at increased risk could be identified.
M R, Nott, J S, Watts
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Electro-convulsive Therapy

BMJ: British Medical Journal, 1953
E. Thomas, B. F. Honan
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Electro-Convulsive Therapy

2011
David Libon, Libon David J
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Unilateral Electro-Convulsive Therapy

Journal of Mental Science, 1958
Electro-convulsive therapy was first introduced by Cerletti and Bini in 1938, and has now become the principal physical method of therapy in psychiatry.
N P, LANCASTER, R R, STEINERT, I, FROST
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The Effect of Electro-Convulsive Therapy on Initiative

Journal of Mental Science, 1959
Helping the senile patient is not easy, and treatment today is largely palliative. Recent cybernetic work (Ashby, 2), however, offered a suggestion that some alleviation might be possible. This paper describes briefly the underlying theory and how we investigated the matter clinically. (Only an outline of the theory can be given here.)
G H, COLLINS, M, BASSETT
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Electro-convulsive therapy practices in the community

Psychological Medicine, 2001
Background. Controlled studies have demonstrated that variations in electro-convulsive therapy (ECT) technique impacts on efficacy and cognitive side effects. However, there is little information on the extent of variation in how ECT is practiced in community settings in the United States.Methods.
J, Prudic, M, Olfson, H A, Sackeim
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A Comparison of Techniques in Electro-Convulsive Therapy

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1968
Electroconvulsive therapy, modified by intravenous anaesthesia and muscle relaxants, has long been accepted as a satisfactory form of treatment. Relatively simple and safe, and effective in selected cases, the technique has undergone little change in recent years and seems almost in danger of becoming fixed indefinitely in its present form.
M, Valentine, K M, Keddie, D, Dunne
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