ECT in acute delirium and related clinical states

Convulsive Therapy

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 10-17

  Strömgren, Lizzie Sand ^a,b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bilateral electroconvulsive therapy; Delirium; Electroconvulsive therapy; Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome (NMS); Psychopharmacotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DELIRIUM; DEPRESSION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MANIA; MANIC DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; MENTAL DISEASE; PSYCHOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHIZOIDISM; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

ADULT; AGED; DELIRIUM; DELIRIUM, DEMENTIA, AMNESTIC, COGNITIVE DISORDERS; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030947564     PISSN: 07498055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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