In a psychiatric setting, dental health is predominantly important for a geriatric patient undergoing ECT. As we understand in contemporary psychiatry, modified ECT, i.e., ECT under general anaesthesia, is recommended by most guidelines across the world.

Right unilateral ECT was begun using the d’Elia position, and seizure threshold of 5% (motor seizure, 48.7 seconds; electroencephalographic seizure, 99.7 seconds) was determined by titration. The following stimulus parameters were subsequently used: energy, 30%; current, 0.9 A; pulse width, 0.25 milliseconds; frequency, 50 Hz; charge, 150 ...

2016年5月17日 · Dental and oral trauma including dental fractures, dislocations, lacerations, and prosthetic damage are uncommon complications of ECT and are generally of mild to moderate severity. Potential...

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a clinical procedure where a small dose of electric current is passed through the brain for a brief period to induce seizures for therapeutic purposes in psychiatric (and certain neurological) conditions.

2020年1月16日 · This study aimed to examine the incidence of dental fracture during ECT and to investigate whether the incidence differs between different sexes, age groups, diagnosis groups, electrode placements, or number of treatment sessions.

Oral trauma can be an ECT-related adverse effect. We reviewed the published literature on oral health and dental protection in patients undergoing ECT, and found that there are deficits in all guidelines on dental protection during ECT. Dental assessment and treatment before and after ECT is warranted.

Since patients in late life are at increased risk for a wide range of oral health diseases, ECT may produce unexpected dental complications. In this poster we review the published literature on ECT and oral care while focusing on patients in late life.

Choice of dental protection during ECT should be based on dental pathology prior to ECT. We describe the results of formal dental examinations of 82 patients prior to ECT and 82 matched psychiatric controls. Dental pathology was frequent in both groups without intergroup differences.

This article describes the results of an evaluation of a system to use trained junior psychiatric doctors to perform the pre-ECT oral assessment. All junior doctors were given a 1-hour training session in making oral assessments, and their ability …

Oliver M. Glass, MD1; Magdalena Glass, DD2; Brian C. Muzyka, DMD, MS, MBA2 1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, East Carolina University / Vidant Medical Center 2Department of Hospital Dentistry, East Carolina University [email protected], 252-744-1406 . Background #ECT"sends"an"electrical"impulse"to"apaent’s"scalp"with"hopes"of"triggering"aseizure."