Volume : 6, Issue : 6, June - 2017

A study of common side effects of Electro Convulsive Therapy and their predictors

Dr. Pranjalee Bhagat, Dr. Hemant Waghmare, Dr. Pranay Gandhi

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif">Background</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;&#10;line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-weight:&#10;bold">The present study focused on the evaluation of myalgia and headache and their predictors after ECT.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;&#10;line-height:200%"><b><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif">&nbsp;Methods<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;&#10;line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-weight:&#10;bold">A prospective analytical descriptive study was conducted from Jan 2016 to December 2016, in an academic hospital in Central India. 621 patients with psychiatric disorders enrolled in the study.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;&#10;line-height:200%"><b><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif">&nbsp;Results:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;&#10;line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-weight:&#10;bold">6 hours after ECT, 126 patients (21.9%) reported headaches, and 56 patients (9%) reported myalgia. The presence of headache or myalgia 6 hours after ECT was not correlated to the duration of convulsion, treatment sessions, sex, or age. But myalgia at 2 hours after treatment was correlated with sex (0.04). <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;&#10;line-height:200%"><b><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif">&nbsp;Conclusion<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;&#10;line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-weight:&#10;bold">The results of the present study demonstrate that headache after ECT procedures was more common than myalgia, but it was mild, tolerable, and decreased within 6 hours of the treatment.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;&#10;line-height:200%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-weight:&#10;bold">.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p>