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Intravenous Tranquillization with ECT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Joan Gomez  and
Peter Dally
Joan Gomez
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Westminster Hospital, S.W.1
Peter Dally
Affiliation:
Westminster Hospital, S.W.1
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Summary

Forty depressed in-patients for whom electro-convulsive therapy had been prescribed were rated before treatment on depression and anxiety scales. Side effects, post-operative agitation and retrograde memory impairment were assessed in each patient after each of several treatments. Results were compared when no tranquillizer was given and when either diazepam or haloperidol was administered intravenously immediately before the anaesthetic. It was found than when ECT was given without tranquillization, the incidence and severity of post-operative agitation and of side effects were significantly greater in those patients with a high level of anxiety before treatment. Both diazepam and haloperidol were found to be effective in subduing agitation and side effects in anxious, depressed patients, but with diazepam recovery time was longer.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 127 , Issue 6 , December 1975 , pp. 604 - 608
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1975 

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