We are excited to share that Dr. Anna Borisovskaya, SeattleNTC’s Director of ECT Services, has a newly published article in the Journal of ECT, entitled “Postanesthesia Recovery Unit Optimization for Patients With Postictal Agitation Secondary to Electroconvulsive Therapy”.

Dr. Borisovskaya states that “this quality improvement project was done at the Seattle VA jointly with Anesthesiology, Psychiatry, and Nursing departments to estimate how often we had to deal with postictal agitation following ECT, and whether we had to adjust the number of nurses working in the PACU, to help with managing this common side effect of ECT. Not surprisingly, we recommended having more staff to help with patient care, based on significant needs during the recovery of patients experiencing postictal agitation.”

You can read the paper here.