Acta clinica Croatica, Vol. 59. No. 3., 2020.
Review article
Eighty Years of Electroconvulsive Therapy in Croatia and in Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Centre
Dalibor Karlović
orcid.org/0000-0001-6538-7240
; Department of Psychiatry, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Centre, Zagreb, Croatia; School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia; Catholic University of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia
Vivian Andrea Badžim
; Department of Psychiatry, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Centre, Zagreb, Croatia
Marinko Vučić
; Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Therapy, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Centre, Zagreb, Croatia
Helena Krolo Videka
; Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Therapy, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Centre, Zagreb, Croatia
Ana Horvat
; Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Therapy, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Centre, Zagreb, Croatia
Vjekoslav Peitl
orcid.org/0000-0003-4163-6411
; Department of Psychiatry, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Centre, Zagreb, Croatia; Catholic University of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia
Ante Silić
orcid.org/0000-0003-2840-8836
; Department of Psychiatry, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Centre, Zagreb, Croatia; Catholic University of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia
Branka Vidrih
; Department of Psychiatry, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Centre, Zagreb, Croatia; Catholic University of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia
Branka Aukst-Margetić
; Department of Psychiatry, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Centre, Zagreb, Croatia; Catholic University of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia
Danijel Crnković
orcid.org/0000-0001-8381-0436
; Department of Psychiatry, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Centre, Zagreb, Croatia; School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia; Catholic University of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia
Iva Ivančić Ravlić
; Department of Psychiatry, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Centre, Zagreb, Croatia; School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia; Catholic University of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
In 1937, Ugo Cerletti and Lucio Bini performed electroconvulsive treatment (ECT) in Rome for the first time. That was the time when different types of ‘shock therapy’ were performed; beside ECT, insulin therapies, cardiazol shock therapy, etc. were also performed. In 1938,
Cerletti and Bini reported the results of ECT. Since then, this method has spread rapidly to a large number of countries. As early as 1940, just two years after the results of the ECT had been published, it was also introduced in Croatia, at Sestre milosrdnice Hospital, for the first time in our hospital and in the then state of Yugoslavia. Since 1960, again the first in Croatia and the state, we performed ECT in general anesthesia and continued it down to the present, with a single time brake.
Keywords
Electroconvulsive therapy; General anesthesia; History; Hospital; Croatia
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Publication date:
1.9.2020.
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