Clinically favourable effects of ketamine as an anaesthetic for electroconvulsive therapy: a retrospective study.
European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience December 2011 Laura Kranaster, Jutta Kammerer-Ciernioch, Carolin Hoyer et al.
In a retrospective chart review, we examined the effects of ketamine, an N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist, as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) anaesthetic in patients suffering from therapy-resistant depression. We included 42 patients who received ECT treatment with either ketamine (n = 16) or the barbiturate thiopental (n = 26). We analysed the number of sessions until...