Acta psychiatrica Belgica
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Acta psychiatrica Belgica · Jan 1981
Case Reports[Post-traumatic conversion hysteria. A case report of hysterical paraplegia (author's transl)].
The authors report a case of hysterical paraplegia occurring two days after a craniovertebral trauma. They describe the patient's evolution on psychological, neurological and physical therapy grounds. They also discuss the concept of traumatic neurosis with regard to definition, characteristics, classification and its boundaries in relation to the subjective central post-traumatic syndrome. They also study the definition, frequency, limits and course of conversion hysteria with special emphasis on hysterical paralysis and its characteristics.
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Acta psychiatrica Belgica · Sep 1977
[Emergency and psychiatric emergency at the General Hospital (author's transl)].
First, the author examines the requests made on the consulting psychiatrist (Prof. Luminet Service) within a 1.000 beds' hospital, administered by the Public Assistance and with a university status. He compares data on three months to a similar study done in the same hospital four years ago and lasting for six months. ⋯ Secondly, the functioning of the psychiatric emergency unit (11 beds) is examined for a period of four months. The 59 patients in transit in this unit are examined for age, diagnosis, place of origin, length of stay. Some factors in favor and against this type of stay are discussed, in relation to the teaching role of the unit for the students and in relation to the type of hospitalised patients (Acta psychiat. belg., 1977, 77, 639-652).
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Acta psychiatrica Belgica · Jul 1976
A progress in electroconvulsive therapy: the non-barbiturate anesthaetic drug etomidate.
Forty-six female patients (19-72 years) requiring ECT for psychiatric indications received 0.5 mg atropine, followed by 0.1-0.4 mg/kg bodyweight of etomidate. Subsequently 50 mg of suxamethonium were injected and ECT was applied. The etomidate-ECT combination proved very suitable and was well tolerated.
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Acta psychiatrica Belgica · Mar 1972
Comparative Study Clinical Trial Controlled Clinical Trial[Comparative study of the anxiolytic efficacy of lorazepam (WY 4036) and diazepam (Valium)].