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. 1980 Jul-Sep;22(3):274–276.

INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE CHANGES FOLLOWING MODIFIED E.C.T.

G D Shukla 1, U C Sharma 2, A N Mehrotra 3
PMCID: PMC3013215  PMID: 22058480

SUMMARY

Intraocular pressure changes following modified ECT with and without succinylcholine were studied in Sixty cases. The pressure rose in both the conditions though the rise was more marked and longer lasting when succinylcholine was used.

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