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The Routine use of Muscular Relaxants Prior to Electrical Convulsive Therapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

J. A. Ardis  and
A. M. Wyllie
J. A. Ardis
Affiliation:
Aberdeen General and Mental Hospitals
A. M. Wyllie
Affiliation:
Aberdeen Royal Mental Hospital
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It is probable that the incidence of vertebral fractures during E.C.T. is greater than was formerly thought to be the case. Meschan, Scruggs and Colhoun (1950) found vertebral compression fractures in over 35 per cent. of 212 cases treated with E.C.T. Plattner (1949), in a series of 500 cases (200 men and 300 women), found fractures in 58 (37 men and 21 women). In 20 of his cases E.C.T. had to be abandoned on account of the fracture.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 99 , Issue 414 , January 1953 , pp. 148 - 153
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1953 

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