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Electroconvulsive Therapy in Denmark
British Journal of Psychiatry, 1976SummaryDuring the fiscal year 1 April 1972 to 31 March 1973, 22,210 ECT treatments in 3,438 series were given in Denmark (6.46 treatments per series). Indications for treatment were: endogenous depression, acute delirium, mania, hysterical psychosis, reactive depression and schizophrenia.
J, Heshe, E, Roeder
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Electroconvulsive Therapy and Ethnicity
The Journal of ECT, 2012Studies on ECT and race show that ECT clinics treat predominantly white patients. It has been suggested that certain ethnic groups are less likely to receive a diagnosis of an affective disorder and are therefore less likely to be referred to the ECT clinic. In the United States, inequalities in access to health care between the different ethnic groups
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Electroconvulsive Therapy in Pregnancy
Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2007Electroconvulsive therapy for the treatment of depressive and bipolar disorders has been advocated as being safe and effective in pregnancy.A primigravida underwent multiple electroconvulsive treatments during pregnancy for the diagnosis of major depression.
Michael G, Pinette +3 more
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New England Journal of Medicine, 2022
Randall T. Espinoza, Charles H. Kellner
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Randall T. Espinoza, Charles H. Kellner
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Anesthesia for electroconvulsive therapy
Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology, 2018Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a well established and effective therapy in treatment-resistant depression. It is performed under general anesthesia, but no consensus exists regarding the optimal anesthetic drugs. A growing interest in optimizing adjunctive medication regimes in ECT anesthesia has emerged in recent years.
Martin, Soehle, Janina, Bochem
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Electroconvulsive therapy and the heart
International Journal of Cardiology, 2007Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a modality of treatment that consists in inducing a controlled convulsive seizure by electric stimulation of the brain. Indications for ECT include schizophrenia, major depression, and bipolar affective disorders, especially when patients are drugresistant or have adverse effects due to drug therapy [1]. People of all
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Electroconvulsive Therapy in the Elderly
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1984 Ratzan, Richard M., Raskind, Murray
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Electroconvulsive Therapy in Depression
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1990Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has been in use for over 50 years and remains one of the most effective treatments in psychiatry. Effectiveness rates for ECT in depression range between 80% and 90%; no comparative study has shown any other intervention to be superior to ECT.
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Anesthesia for Electroconvulsive Therapy
Anesthesiology Clinics, 2020This article deals with anesthesia for patients receiving ECT for a variety of mood disorders. It includes indications, contraindications, patient selection, workflow, anesthetic management, and postprocedure complications of electroconvulsive therapy.
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Electroconvulsive therapy in the elderly
Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 2003ECT is a safe, useful, and effective treatment for a variety of disorders and can be administered safely in elderly patients. Efforts need to be undertaken to increase the awareness and acceptability of ECT treatments. As Carl Salzman says in the January 1998 issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, "Let us not perpetuate outmoded, nonscientific ...
Sanjeev M, Kamat +2 more
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