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Deep sleep therapy, introduced in the late 20th century, involved placing patients into a drug-induced coma for extended periods, purportedly to treat various mental illnesses.< [5] This approach to mental health treatment was part of a broader search for effective therapies during a time when the psychiatric field was struggling with managing ...
Simone D., a pseudonym for a psychiatric patient in the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in New York, [10] who in 2007 won a court ruling which set aside a two-year-old court order to give her electroshock treatment against her will [11] [12] Duplessis Orphans Orphans of the 1950s in the province of Quebec, Canada, endured electroshock.
The study concluded that efficacy of electroconvulsive therapy in patients with treatment-resistant depression was overall high with no major difference found in efficacy with respect to variables like age, gender, and psychosis”. [2]
Older men tend to have higher thresholds than younger women, but it is not a hard and fast rule, and other factors, for example drugs, affect seizure threshold. Immediately prior to treatment, a patient is given a short-acting anesthetic such as methohexital , propofol , etomidate , or thiopental , [ 1 ] a muscle relaxant such as suxamethonium ...
Ischemic hepatitis, also known as shock liver, is a condition defined as an acute liver injury caused by insufficient blood flow (and consequently insufficient oxygen delivery) to the liver. [5] The decreased blood flow ( perfusion ) to the liver is usually due to shock or low blood pressure.
In the study of people ages 65 and older, 8.15% of women treated by female physicians died within 30 days, compared with 8.38% of women treated by male physicians.
In a wilderness context where counseling, psychotherapy, and cognitive behavioral therapy is unlikely to be available, the treatment for acute stress reaction is very similar to the treatment of cardiogenic shock, vascular shock, and hypovolemic shock; that is, allowing the patient to lie down, providing reassurance, and removing the stimulus ...
In 1927, Sakel, who had recently qualified as a medical doctor in Vienna and was working in a psychiatric clinic in Berlin, began to use low (sub-coma) doses of insulin to treat drug addicts and psychopaths, and when one of the patients experienced improved mental clarity after having slipped into an accidental coma, Sakel reasoned the treatment might work for mentally ill patients. [3]