Facilitation of ECT by intravenous administration of theophylline

Convulsive Therapy

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 232-237

  Leentjens, Albert F G ^a   Van Den Broek, Walter W ^a   Kusuma, Arinardi ^a   Bruijn, Jan A ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Caffeine; Convulsion; Theophylline

Indexed keywords

CAFFEINE; THEOPHYLLINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDICATION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREMEDICATION; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; RECEPTORS, PURINERGIC P1; THEOPHYLLINE;

EID: 0030511899     PISSN: 07498055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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