Protective Effects of Intramuscular Glycopyrrolate on Cardiac Conduction During ECT. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • The immediate effects of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) on cardiac conduction, with or without anticholinergic (glycopyrrolate) premedication, were systematically assessed in 19 patients. The resumption of cardiac rhythm after ECT was significantly delayed in treatments without glycopyrrolate. There was no apparent clinical impact of this phenomenon, even though some patients showed asystole of up to 6 s during nonglycopyrrolate treatments.

publication date

  • January 1, 1989

Identity

PubMed ID

  • 11941034

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 5

issue

  • 4