Patient Reported Experience of Electro Convulsive Therapy (ECT)

Unilateral electro-convulsive therapy.

ELECTRO-CONVULSIVE therapy was first introduced by Cerletti and Bini in 1938, and has now become the principal physical method of therapy in psychiatry. Unhappily, whilst this method of treatment is at present enjoying such deserved popularity, it is not without undesirable effects, some of which may be quite insidious. Modification by relaxants has resulted in a change in importance of its com...

Electro-convulsive Therapy : a Review

Eversince its discovery by Gerletti and Bini (1938), electro-convulsive therapy (E. C. T.) has continued to occupy a central place in the therapeutic armamentarium of psychiatrists. Despite abhorrence from some quarters, it is still being practiced as one of the cheapest and safest, and yet one of the most effective therapeutic techniques in the whole of medical science (Kalinowsky, 1975; Royal...

Comparison of thiopentone sodium and propofol for electro convulsive therapy (ECT).

OBJECTIVE For safe conduct of electro convulsive therapy (ECT), general anaesthesia is administered to the patients. In this study we compared thiopentone sodium and propofol as induction agents for ECT. PATIENTS AND METHODS Twenty five patients each undergoing at least 2 sessions of ECT at the psychiatry department were included in the study. Each patient either received thiopentone or propo...

Cardiovascular Changes following Electro-convulsive Therapy.

Electro-convulsive therapy was first used extensively in 1939, and with such success that three years later Kolb and Vogel (1942) in a survey ofthe United States reported its use in 42 per cent of mental hospitals and in the treatment of 2-3 per cent of all mental hospital patients; this latter group was comprised of the schizophrenias, the manic-depressive states, involutional melancholias, an...

The mode of action of electro-convulsive therapy.