NCT03105245

Understanding How Anaesthesia Affects ECT Outcomes

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 54 (actual)
• Sponsor: The University of New South Wales · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study will examine how anaesthetic technique affects ECT outcomes. Specifically, the investigators will examine how: 1) the time interval between anaesthetic and ECT stimulus, and 2) the ventilation rate before ECT stimulus, impacts on the quality of the EEG (this is a recording of brain activity during ECT and is used to judge the quality of a seizure and to guide individual patient dosing).

Detailed description

This study aims to examine how the time interval between administration of anaesthetic agent and ECT stimulus delivery impacts upon measures of EEG quality (seizure quality).

Conditions

• Depression

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) time interval + Anaesthetic (Thiopentone)	The intervention in this study is the time interval between anaesthetic administration and ECT stimulus

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-03-15
• Primary completion: 2019-03-15
• Completion: 2019-03-15
• First posted: 2017-04-07
• Last updated: 2023-03-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Australia