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We report two cases of stupor in which the patients were safely treated by electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) despite high risk conditions. Case 1 was a 72 year old schizophrenic woman who had developed catatonic stupor and had joint contractures as a complication of rheumatoid arthritis. Case 2 was a 52 year old woman who developed a stuporous state which was complicated by severe dehydration with hypernatremia. In both cases, psychotic symptoms were improved by ECT without event. Careful application of ECT seemed to be effective and safe even for stupor in high risk patients.
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PMID:Effective electroconvulsive therapy for stupor in the high risk patient: a report of two cases. 920 58

In the author's opinion, the uncertainty and incompleteness of the phenomenological concept of general anesthesia negatively affect researches. The basis of the vast majority of dissertations on anesthesiology and resuscitation is a comparison of 2-3 procedures of anesthesiological provision. The author considers the surgical stage of anesthesia as a type of the body's genetically determined passive defensive reaction. The neurophysiological basis of this reaction is a temporarily dominant reflex system (a dominant) that has its own intrinsic adequacy criteria controlled by an acceptor of the result of action. Parallels are drawn with the naturally occurring states of biological objects, which are reminiscent of those of the surgical stage of anesthesia. The similarity of lethargy, catatonic stupor, and absence with the surgical stage of anesthesia is discussed. The author considers that anesthesiological supply adequate to the conditions of a surgical operation ensures the turning on and most complete realization of the body's natural compensatory capacities as an intricate self-regulating system.
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PMID:[Theoretical and methodological aspects of anesthesiology]. 1620 78