Irum Siddique, Sadaf Aijaz, Tayyaba Ikram.
Immediate and Long Term Complications Associated with Non-Conventional ECT at Tertiary Care Hospital in Faisalabad.
J Pak Psych Soc Jan ;17(4):29-31.

OBJECTIVE: To Measure Immediate and long term complications of Electro Convulsive Therapy (ECT) on the patients who received it. STUDY DESIGN: Descriptive study. PLACE AND DURATION OF THE STUDY: The study was conducted in the Department of psychiatry and BS DHQ teaching hospital, Faisalabad Medical University from 01.07.2019 to 30.06.2020. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: 443 electro convulsive treatment were included in the study using convenience sampling technique. Patients who received these ECTs were between 18-65 years of age, of both genders, presenting to Department of psychiatry and BS DHQ teaching hospital, Faisalabad Medical University with Resistant Depression, Bipolar Depression, resistant Schizophrenia, Resistant Mania, Major Depression with Suicide, Catatonia, Postpartum Psychosis and depression as per the criteria of International Classification of Diseases (ICD) version 10. Immediate complications were measured after each ECT while long term complications were measured at the end of ECT treatment. A pre designed check list was used to measure complications. RESULTS: Out of 443 ECTs, 127 (27.3%) were given to male patients and 316 (71%) to female patients. Out of them 83.9% patients did not show any immediate complication. 8.9% showed headache, 4.9% has body aches and 2.4% had transient Amnesia. None of the patient reported any long term complications like Anterograde Amnesia, Retrograde Amnesia, Denture Disturbance, Burn or any other. CONCLUSION: Conventional ECT has not been found associated with any long term complications. It implies that where needed ECT may not be avoided only because of unavailability of anesthesia.

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