Incessant non-sustained ventricular tachycardia after stimulus of electroconvulsive therapy with atropine premedication?

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 564-567

  Kim, Chol ^a   Yokozuka, Motoi ^a   Sato, Chiyo ^a   Nakanishi, Kazuhiro ^a   Kitamura, Akira ^a   Sakamoto, Atsuhiro ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atropine premedication; Electroconvulsive therapy; Incessant non sustained ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; FLUNITRAZEPAM; LANDIOLOL; LORAZEPAM; NICARDIPINE; PAROXETINE; PROPOFOL; SUXAMETHONIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASYSTOLE; BRADYCARDIA; CASE REPORT; DEPRESSION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART VENTRICLE BIGEMINY; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; MALE; PREMEDICATION; SINUS RHYTHM; STIMULUS;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ATROPINE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHOLINES; PREANESTHETIC MEDICATION; RECURRENCE; RETREATMENT; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; UREA; VENTRICULAR PREMATURE COMPLEXES;

EID: 34548697731     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: 14401819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2007.01708.x     Document Type: Article

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