Increased Incidence of Missed Seizures During ECT in the Elderly Male.
Monitoring seizure length is an important addition to the clinical practice of ECT. Without monitoring, undetected missed seizures may occur. In a retrospective study of ECT treatments for a sample of 58 patients with a DSM-III diagnosis of major depression, significantly more missed seizures (p < 0.05) occurred in the elderly males.
Pettinati
Helen M.
HM
Carrier Foundation, Belle Mead, and UMDNJ-Rutgers Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA.
Nilsen
Stephani M.
SM