Oxygen saturation of patients recovering from electroconvulsive therapy
- 1 July 1996
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Anaesthesia
- Vol. 51 (7), 702-704
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2044.1996.tb07861.x
Abstract
Oxygen saturation was measured by pulse oximetry in 33 psychiatric patients breathing air during recovery from 60 episodes of electroconvulsive therapy. Desaturation to less than 90% occurred in 17% of patients. Oxygen saturation values in recovery were significantly lower than pre-operative saturations (p = 0.0014 using ANOVA), with a significant difference (p = 0.001) for up to 5 min in recovery.Keywords
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