Influence of age on effectiveness and tolerability of electroconvulsive therapy

Journal of ECT

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 282-288

  Damm, Julia ^a   Eser, Daniela ^a   Schüle, Cornelius ^a   Obermeier, Michael ^a   Möeller, Hans Jüergen ^a   Rupprecht, Rainer ^a   Baghai, Thomas C ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

clinical effectiveness; complications; elderly; electroconvulsive therapy; major depression; old age; schizophrenia; tolerability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL GLOBAL IMPRESSION SCALE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONVULSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; SUPRAVENTRICULAR PREMATURE BEAT; THERAPY EFFECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANESTHESIA; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650513639     PISSN: 10950680     EISSN: 15334112     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/YCT.0b013e3181cadbf5     Document Type: Article

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