Fetal heart rate decelerations during ECT-induced seizures: Is it important?

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 101-103

  DeBattista, C ^a   Cochran, M ^a   Barry, J J ^a   Brock Utne, John G ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Electro convulsive therapy; General anesthesia; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; FETUS HEART RATE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE;

ADULT; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 0037223904     PISSN: 00015172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-6576.2003.470119.x     Document Type: Article

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