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Oxygen saturation of patients recovering from electroconvulsive therapy
Author(s) -
McCormick A. S. M.,
Saunders D. A.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.839
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2044
pISSN - 0003-2409
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1996.tb07861.x
Subject(s) - medicine , electroconvulsive therapy , pulse oximetry , anesthesia , oxygen saturation , oxygen , saturation (graph theory) , oxygen therapy , chemistry , mathematics , organic chemistry , electroconvulsive shock , combinatorics
Summary Oxygen saturation was measured by pulse oximetry in 33 psychiatric patients breathing air during recovery from 60 episodes of electroconvulsive therapy. Desaturation to less than 90% occurred in 17% of patients. Oxygen saturation values in recovery were significantly lower than pre‐operative saturations (p = 0.0014 using ANOVA), with a significant difference (p = 0.001) for up to 5min in recovery.