ECT use for a patient with malignant hyperthermia
- 1 August 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 139 (8) , 1065-1066
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.8.1065
Abstract
Dantrolene was used as a prophylactic during electroconvulsive therapy with a depressed patient susceptible to malignant hyperthermia. Succinylcholine and tricyclic and monoamine oxidase-inhibiting anti-depressant can precipitate malignant hyperthermia and were avoided.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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