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Table 3 Parameters recorded after each ECT-session

From: The study protocol of the Norwegian randomized controlled trial of electroconvulsive therapy in treatment resistant depression in bipolar disorder

Anaesthetic drugs used

Energy (%)

Charge delivered

Motor activity

Seizure duration

Postictal suppression index

Sustained coherence

Sustained power

Seizure energy index

Quality of δ-waves, seizure ending and postictal supression

Basal and peak heart rate

Time to reorientation (personal data, time, place)

Mood state immediate after recovery of orientation and the following hours, expressed like "good, neutral, don't know, better, changed" or "bad, depressed, no better, no change, feeling of not having had a treatment