Electro-Convulsive Therapy with Minimum Hazard
- 1 July 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 141 (1) , 12-18
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.141.1.12
Abstract
Summary: The inter-electrode resistance during ECT is shown to be very variable, a finding which invalidates the measurement of shocks in joules. With square wave pulses of selected current value the threshold for convulsion may be below 100 milliamperes or above 2,000 milliamperes. It is advisable to measure the current value during millisecond pulses with relatively long intervals between.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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