[General anesthesia for electroshock therapy].
Those are a few reflexions to be pondered by psychiatrists, to remind them what are the dangers connected with anesthesia for electroshock-therapy. Some of those risks are well-known: inhalation of gastric liquids, recess in ventilation. Others are somehow more obscure: hyperkalemia, extended curarization after injection of succinylcholine. The risk is therefore still present: to know it is to be ready to face it.
D000768:Anesthesia, General / Q000379:methods*; D004565:Electroconvulsive Therapy / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D006947:Hyperkalemia / Q000139:chemically induced; D013390:Succinylcholine / Q000009:adverse effects
D013390:Succinylcholine
Anesthésie générale pour sismothérapie