2018
DOI: 10.1097/yct.0000000000000451
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Management of Emergency Electroconvulsive Therapy in the Intensive Care Unit for Life-Threatening Psychiatric Conditions

Abstract: Catatonia can lead to severe complications and may be lethal but is often underdiagnosed. The clinical presentation can be similar to coma. In these situations, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) can be used as first-line treatment to enable extubation, recovery of autonomy, and rapid discharge from intensive care. We report 4 cases of patients hospitalized in the intensive care unit with comatose clinical presentation and life-threatening condition caused by catatonia. All patients received ECT sessions, after w… Show more

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“…The delivery of ECT to hospitalized patients would understandably focus on patients in a psychiatry unit, but more unusual settings for delivering ECT have been reported—such as within an intensive care unit 3 or neurocritical care unit 4 . In the outpatient setting, patients typically come from their homes or group residential settings to receive ECT.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The delivery of ECT to hospitalized patients would understandably focus on patients in a psychiatry unit, but more unusual settings for delivering ECT have been reported—such as within an intensive care unit 3 or neurocritical care unit 4 . In the outpatient setting, patients typically come from their homes or group residential settings to receive ECT.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Les principales raisons invoquées étaient : le déploiement des équipes d'anesthésie dans les services de réanimation ; la quisition de matériel (scopes, respirateurs) et des drogues anesthésiques pour ces services ; la limitation ou arrêt des déplacements pour les patients en ambulatoire en ECT de maintenance ou les patients à risque d'exposition et de propagation du SARS-CoV-2, en provenance d'institutions, telles que les EHPAD ou les services de géronto-psychiatrie, externalisant leurs actes d'ECT sur des pôles dédiés. Bien que certains centres aient pu développer des thérapeutiques alternatives (ajustement du traitement psychotrope de fond, techniques de neurostimulation non invasives comme la stimulation magnétique transcrânienne répétée, cures de kétamine IV, cures d'eskétamine) [5], de nombreux patients ont vu leurs soins d'ECT -cure, consolidation et maintenance -suspendus, de consolidation ou de maintenance suspendus, les exposant à des rechutes, des récidives, voire à l'engagement d'un risque vital en cas de crise suicidaire [6] ou de syndrome catatonique [7]. De plus, de nouveaux patients relevant de l'indication urgente de la pratique d'ECT n'ont pas pu bénéficier du traitement, ce qui aura une incidence sur la morbi/mortalité de ces troubles psychiatriques majeurs et aigus.…”
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“…Delirium is a call to action as it portends a worse prognosis and sometimes undetected but treatable underlying illness. Another neuropsychiatric syndrome associated with unresponsiveness is catatonia, occurring in 4% of ICU patients [67]. Catatonia is a clinical psychomotor syndrome and can easily be mistaken for coma, as its symptoms include stupor, mutism and negativism [24].…”
Section: Residual Sedation Patiencementioning
confidence: 99%