Study on the effectiveness paracetamol two hours before Electro Convulsive Therapy (ECT) to reduce the incidence and severity of post ECT headache.
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Post ECT headache
- Registration Number
- SLCTR/2015/027
- Lead Sponsor
- Professorial Psychiatry Unit,
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete: follow up complete
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
Inclusion Criteria
All adult patients receiving ECT at Colombo North Teaching Hospital during study period .
Exclusion Criteria
1. History of complications such as delirium, intracranial hemorrhages following ECT.
2. Those patients who do not have the capacity to give informed consent before E.C.T.
3. Patients receiving unilateral and bi- frontal E.C.T.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Incidence and severity of post E.C.T. headache using<br>1. visual analogue scale (Huskisson, 1974)<br>2. verbal descriptive scale (Keele, 1948) <br> [2 hours after ECT]<br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method se of rescue analgesics [6 hours after ECT]<br>