{"title":"Defining a course of ECT.","authors":"C H Kellner","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79333,"journal":{"name":"Convulsive therapy","volume":"11 4","pages":"229-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19883198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Risperidone and ECT combination therapy: a case series.","authors":"A Farah, M D Beale, C H Kellner","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79333,"journal":{"name":"Convulsive therapy","volume":"11 4","pages":"280-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19883718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ECT seizure duration: reliability of manual and computer-automated determinations.","authors":"A D Krystal, R D Weiner","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Reliable monitoring of electroencephalographic (EEG) and electromyographic electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) seizure duration has become important as these assessments have become a routine part of the clinical practice of ECT. In this regard, accurate automated seizure duration determinations would be particularly valuable. As a result, the present study was performed to assess the reliability of available computer-automated determinations of seizure duration (Thymatron Model DGx ECT machine; Somatics, Inc.) and to explore the factors upon which such reliability as well as the determinations of experienced raters depend. We found that the experienced human raters had very high interrater reliability, significantly higher than either did with the automated Thymatron DGx ratings. In general, the reliability of all ratings declined in the context of artifact, poor postictal suppression, or an EEG seizure end point that was reached gradually. Reliability was also greater for continuation ECT as compared with the index course. The reliability of Thymatron DGx versus experienced human ratings was particularly sensitive to these factors, ranging from 0.68 when several of these factors were simultaneously present to 0.999 when all these factors were absent.</p>","PeriodicalId":79333,"journal":{"name":"Convulsive therapy","volume":"11 3","pages":"158-69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19510075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In response to letter by Dr. Fink.","authors":"H B Brackin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79333,"journal":{"name":"Convulsive therapy","volume":"11 3","pages":"220-1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19509330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Survey of the practice of electroconvulsive therapy in North Carolina.","authors":"P Creed, L Froimson, L Mathew","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A survey of North Carolina hospitals was conducted to determine the distribution and characteristics of facilities that offer electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Parameters examined in the survey included bed size, geographic location, and average volume of ECT treatments. Facilities that offer ECT make up only 14% of total hospitals surveyed. The majority of hospitals with ECT services are located in moderate to large urban areas. Specific areas of practice were surveyed for each facility, including type of ECT device, location of treatments/recovery, methods for monitoring ictal motor seizure, time required to perform treatments, staffing, and potential areas of ECT nursing education. Standard practices at facilities were found to be generally in compliance with American Psychiatric Association recommendations; differences in practices were identified. Potential nursing education topics related to ECT were ranked to determine those most useful to individual nursing staffs.</p>","PeriodicalId":79333,"journal":{"name":"Convulsive therapy","volume":"11 3","pages":"182-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19509323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Combined alfentanil-methohexital anesthesia in electroconvulsive therapy.","authors":"S H Dinwiddie, K E Isenberg","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Eight patients receiving electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) were anesthetized with alfentanil, 25 mcg/kg, plus 20 mg methohexital, alternating with standard methohexital anesthesia. Combination alfentanil-methohexital anesthesia was associated with a 45% increase in EEG seizure duration. Preliminary evidence suggests that ECT anesthesia using short-acting opiate compounds may prove to be a promising alternative to standard modified ECT, especially for patients with brief seizures.</p>","PeriodicalId":79333,"journal":{"name":"Convulsive therapy","volume":"11 3","pages":"170-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19510076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is ECT the treatment of choice for first-break psychosis?","authors":"C H Kellner","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79333,"journal":{"name":"Convulsive therapy","volume":"11 3","pages":"155-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19510074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Migraine after electroconvulsive therapy.","authors":"H Folkerts","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The first detailed case report of recurrent common migraine after electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is presented; it involves a 52-year-old woman with major depressive disorder. The migraine symptoms corresponded to those of the infrequent spontaneous migraine attacks she had. After a change to propofol as the anesthetic because of methohexital intolerance, the migraine attacks ceased, apparently due to seizure generalization being inhibited by propofol. In patients with migraine, ECT may be expected to trigger a migraine attack, probably in the same way as spontaneous seizures. The possible reasons and significance are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":79333,"journal":{"name":"Convulsive therapy","volume":"11 3","pages":"212-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19509328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electroconvulsive therapy for a schizophrenic patient in catatonic stupor with joint contracture.","authors":"K Mashimo, M Kanaya, T Yamauchi","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The successful use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for a patient in catatonic stupor with joint contracture is reported. A 53-year-old woman, who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, developed a catatonic stupor unresponsive to neuroleptics. Physical emaciation gradually developed under food refusal and poor nutrition. Joint contracture of her extremities resulted from the long period of being bedridden in the same posture. In this case, modified ECT was dramatically effective for catatonic stupor without any complication despite the joint contracture.</p>","PeriodicalId":79333,"journal":{"name":"Convulsive therapy","volume":"11 3","pages":"216-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19509329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}