Anıl Alp, Melike Karaçam Doğan, Elçin Özçelik Eroğlu, Mevhibe İrem Yildiz, Şeref Can Gürel, Suzan Özer
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is an effective and safe treatment method for many psychiatric disorders. In general medical practice, ECT may cause side effects as most other treatment methods do. Headache, myalgia, nausea, vomiting, confusion, anterograde amnesia are common side effects of electroconvulsive therapy. Fever; in addition to general medical conditions such as infection, malignancy, connective tissue diseases, drug treatments, malignant hyperthermia, convulsions, it can also occur due to conditions such as neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS), serotonin syndrome, catatonia, malignant catatonia, which are frequently encountered in psychiatry clinics...
2024: Türk Psikiyatri Dergisi, Turkish Journal of Psychiatry