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Electroconvulsive therapy in patients with long bone fractures
1Department of Old Age Psychiatry, West Middlesex University Hospital, Isleworth, England.
The Journal of ECT
|June 26, 1998
Abstract:
Two elderly patients with severe depression were treated with electroconvulsive therapy despite long bone fractures. Good liaison was maintained throughout with the orthopaedic surgeons and anaesthetists. Both of the patients improved significantly, and there were no musculoskeletal complications.