Electroconvulsive therapy in the intensive care unit for the treatment of catatonia: A case series and review of the literature

General Hospital Psychiatry

Volumn 38, Issue , 2016, Pages 37-41

  Dessens, Femke M ^a   van Paassen, Judith ^a   van Westerloo, David J ^a   van der Wee, Nic J ^a   van Vliet, Irene M ^a   van Noorden, Martijn S ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Catatonia; ECT; Electroconvulsive therapy; Intensive care unit; Malignant catatonia

Indexed keywords

AMANTADINE; BENZODIAZEPINE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOZAPINE; CREATININE; HALOPERIDOL; LORAZEPAM; MEMANTINE; METHADONE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; PROPOFOL; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CASE REPORT; CASE STUDY; CATATONIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LABORATORY TEST; LOCOMOTION; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; MALIGNANT CATATONIA; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MORTALITY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROBIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PSYCHOSIS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECOGNITION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION; URINALYSIS; BIPOLAR DISORDER; COMPLICATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLEPTIC MALIGNANT SYNDROME; PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CATATONIA; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLEPTIC MALIGNANT SYNDROME; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; SCHIZOPHRENIA, PARANOID;

EID: 84951742148     PISSN: 01638343     EISSN: 18737714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2015.09.008     Document Type: Article

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