Portable electromyograph monitoring of unilateral ECT

1 November 1976

journal article
research article
Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry

Vol. 133 (11) , 1340-1341
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.11.1340

Abstract

The authors describe a portable electromyograph (EMG) designed for use in monitoring unilateral ECT. Administration of muscle relaxants in conjunction with ECT often makes it difficult to determine that an adequate response has been elicited. The authors feel that this adaptation of the EMG provides a useful and easy means of monitoring the presence, bilateralism, and length of the seizure.

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