Clinically favourable effects of ketamine as an anaesthetic for electroconvulsive therapy: A retrospective study

European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 261, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 575-582

  Kranaster, Laura ^a   Kammerer Ciernioch, Jutta ^b   Hoyer, Carolin ^a   Sartorius, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Department of General Psychiatry and Psychotherapy   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognition; Depression; ECT; Ketamine

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; KETAMINE; THIOPENTAL; URAPIDIL;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HAMILTON SCALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE;

AGED; ANESTHETICS, DISSOCIATIVE; ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, TREATMENT-RESISTANT; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; KETAMINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PIPERAZINES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THIOPENTAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84355166190     PISSN: 09401334     EISSN: 14338491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00406-011-0205-7     Document Type: Article

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