Electrostimulation in Apnea After Ect

Electric convulsive treatment and its modifications.

“…Two out of three recently pooled, large-scale statistical surveys of mixed material indicate that E C T provides higher immediate remission and improvement rates in schizophrenics than does routine hospital care. Staudt and Zubin (466) reported an initial 52 per cent improvement rate with E C T as compared with the corresponding non-specific rates and control rates of [25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40] Because of variations in type of patient treated, intensity of treatment, and methods of evaluation of response, etc., little would be gained by the detailed comparison of the statistical results of individual workers. For example, in a controlled study favorable to ICT, Rees (400,401) reported that neither E C T nor electronarcosis were superior to results obtained with the untreated patient.…”