• Journal of anesthesia · Aug 2011

    Case Reports

    A case of nonsustained ventricular tachycardia immediately following modified electroconvulsive therapy in a depressive patient.

    • Yasunori Mishima, Kazuo Ushijima, Yukari Koga, Teruyuki Hiraki, and Masahiro Momozaki.
    • Department of Anesthesiology, Kurume University School of Medicine, 67 Asahi-machi, Kurume, Fukuoka 830-0011, Japan.
    • J Anesth. 2011 Aug 1;25(4):595-8.

    AbstractModified electroconvulsive therapy (mECT) with the use of hypnotics and muscle relaxants is an optional and prevailing treatment for depression in patients who have failed on antidepressant regimens. We describe a patient who developed ventricular tachycardia (VT) immediately after mECT. A 64-year-old man with no remarkable past history underwent a course of mECT for drug-resistant depression. Anesthesia was induced with intravenous thiopental (150 mg) followed by rocuronium (50 mg). Three minutes after the administration of rocuronium, the brain was electrically stimulated using a pulse wave. The first mECT session was performed uneventfully. However, the second session 2 days later elicited acute hypertension (182/134 mmHg) and tachycardia (130 bpm), resulting in the appearance of single and couplets of premature ventricular contractions on the electrocardiogram followed by VT lasting about 10 s. The chest was immediately compressed several times, then normal sinus rhythm was spontaneously restored without administering antiarrhythmic agents. The patient recovered from anesthesia without complications. Postoperatively, close examination was unable to definitively determine the cause of VT, resulting in the cancellation of subsequent mECT sessions. It is important to bear in mind that mECT can induce life-threatening arrhythmias such as VT.

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