Asystole during electroconvulsive therapy in an elderly woman treated concomitantly with venlafaxine [2]

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 255-

  Lyons, Jessica Ellen ^a   Symon, Jacqueline ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; EPHEDRINE; VENLAFAXINE;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ASYSTOLE; BRADYCARDIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG RESPONSE; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR DEPRESSION; PATIENT SAFETY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, SECOND-GENERATION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CYCLOHEXANOLS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS;

EID: 39049145126     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00048670701827283     Document Type: Letter

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