Carbamazepine and ECT

Carbamazepine and the lung.

A 69 yr old man was admitted with a 10 day history of fever, arthromyalgia, dyspnoea, dry cough and pleuritic pain. Temperature was 38 degrees C; tachypnoea 36 rpm. Extensive crackles were audible over both upper lung fields. Chest X-ray showed bilateral alveolar infiltrates. Forced vital capacity was 49% of predicted, and carbon monoxide transfer coefficient was 32% of predicted value. The pat...

Carbamazepine and Hematological Malignancies

Received/Geliş tarihi : May 1, 2013 Accepted/Kabul tarihi : June 10, 2013 To the Editor, The letter entitled “Carbamazepine and Multiple Myeloma: Possible Interaction”, written by Günaldı et al. [1] and published in one of the recent issues of your journal, was quite interesting. We would like to emphasize some points about that letter. In the reported case, the patient’s serum globulin level w...

Anaesthesia and Ect

Literature analysis What does the literature say about the selection of an induction agent for ECT? It is in fact a very difficult question since most of the studies are of limited benefit because of their study design in terms of outcome measurements. While seizure duration is helpful, it is by no means the best measure of ECT outcomes. Another problem is that most studies use methohexitone as...

Unilateral Ect and Dosing

The FDA and ECT.