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Titel:

Guide to anaesthetic selection for electroconvulsive therapy.

Dokumenttyp:
Guideline; Journal Article; Practice Guideline; Review; Article
Autor(en):
Wagner, KJ; Möllenberg, O; Rentrop, M; Werner, C; Kochs, EF
Abstract:
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is used in the treatment of severe psychiatric disorders. It involves the induction of a seizure for therapeutic purposes by the administration of a variable-frequency electrical stimulus via electrodes applied to the scalp. The original application of ECT in non-anaesthetised patients resulted in many traumatic effects and was replaced, in the early 1960s, with a modified ECT regimen that used anaesthesia with neuromuscular blockade. This remains the worldwide st...     »
Zeitschriftentitel:
CNS Drugs
Jahr:
2005
Band / Volume:
19
Heft / Issue:
9
Seitenangaben Beitrag:
745-58
Sprache:
eng
PubMed:
http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16142990
Print-ISSN:
1172-7047
TUM Einrichtung:
Klinik für Anästhesiologie (DHM); Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie
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