d-Tubocurarine Chloride in Electro-Convulsion Therapy

Catecholamine and cardiovascular response to electro-convulsion therapy in man.

Fourteen anaesthetized patients undergoing electro-convulsion therapy on one or more occasions were studied. Systolic and diastolic blood pressure, heart rate, and plasma adrenaline and noradrenaline levels were measured before, during and after the electric shock. With the electric shock, blood pressure and heart rate rose and adrenaline and noradrenaline levels in plasma increased steeply. Th...

Convulsion Therapy in Schizophrenia

A system of anaesthesia using d-tubocurarine chloride for chest surgery.

all round sense to other methods but even in its most refined standards it is doubtful whether, alone, it serves fully the requirements of the long and severe operations now carried out in the abdomen. Success with inhalational anaesthesia demands a much higher degree of technical dexterity and more fundamental physiological and pharmacological knowledge on the part of the administrator than ev...

A System of Anaesthesia Using D-tubocurarine Chloride for Chest Surgery

all round sense to other methods but even in its most refined standards it is doubtful whether, alone, it serves fully the requirements of the long and severe operations now carried out in the abdomen. Success with inhalational anaesthesia demands a much higher degree of technical dexterity and more fundamental physiological and pharmacological knowledge on the part of the administrator than ev...

Memory studies in electric convulsion therapy.

The disturbances of memory immediately following electric convulsion therapy (E.C.T.) have been the subject of many investigations (Zubin and Barrera, 1941; Mayer-Gross, 1943; Liberson and Wilcox, 1945; Kalinowsky and Hoch, 1947). Implicit, ifnot explicit, in the majority of these papers is the assumption that memory can be studied in isolation, Bartlett, however, (1932), long ago demonstrated ...