THE PRESENT USE OF ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY
- 1 February 1994
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Annual Reviews in Annual Review of Medicine
- Vol. 45 (1), 273-281
- https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.med.45.1.273
Abstract
Physicians attempting to treat certain severe mental disorders have recently shown renewed interest in electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). A number of technical innovations have made ECT safer, as well as more effective. These innovations include oxygenation, muscular relaxation, unilateral nondominant electrode placement, use of brief-pulse stimuli, titrated stimulus dosing, electroencephalographic (EEG) monitoring, determination of seizure adequacy, and pharmacologic enhancement of treatment response.Keywords
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