Electroconvulsive therapy for catatonia: Treatment characteristics and outcomes in 27 patients

Journal of ECT

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 248-252

  Van Waarde, Jeroen A ^a   Tuerlings, Joep H A M ^a   Verwey, Bastiaan ^a   Van Der Mast, Rose C ^b  

^a RIJNSTATE HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

case series; catatonia; electroconvulsive therapy; outcome

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BODY TEMPERATURE; CATATONIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MOOD DISORDER; MORBIDITY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CATATONIA; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650477622     PISSN: 10950680     EISSN: 15334112     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/YCT.0b013e3181c18a13     Document Type: Article

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