[Electroconvulsive therapy in a peripheral hospital].
The findings are reported of a retrospective study of 25 patients with a refractory depression in the restricted sense, admitted for ECT to a psychiatric department of a general hospital (Rijnstate, Arnhem). The results after ECT and the course during 2 years after the treatment were inventoried and compared with data in the literature. At discharge, 12 patients were classified as 'recovered', 9 were improved and four showed little or no change. After two years, 4 patients had died, one of them having committed suicide. Of the 22 follow-up patients 19 patients were at home: 15 could be classified as cured, 3 considered their condition improved and 4 were unchanged. Twelve were found to have had a recurrence of depression which in ten of them could be controlled with antidepressive drugs or ECT. ECT as a part of treatment of depressions may be regarded as useful and may safely be administered in a psychiatric department of a general hospital.
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Ziekenhuis Rijnstate, afd. Psychiatrie, Arnhem.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000928:Antidepressive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000628:therapy*; D004565:Electroconvulsive Therapy; D005260:Female; D006769:Hospitals, General; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital; D012189:Retrospective Studies
D000928:Antidepressive Agents
Elektroconvulsietherapie in een perifeer ziekenhuis.