Classics in ECT: Rasmussen LTE About Cardiac Safety of ECT, From 1993
"Classics in ECT" brings you this LTE from 1993, in Anesthesia and Analgesia : Cardiac safety of ECT. Rasmussen KG, Zorumski CF, Jarvis MR. Anesth Analg. 1993 Dec;77(6):1307. doi: 10.1213/00000539-199312000-00048. PMID: 8250336 The letter is here: And the response: Here's a little back and forth in a top tier anesthesia journal from the early 1990s. The Rasmussen et al. LTE is thoughtfully non-alarmist, albeit a little extreme in the withholding of beta blockers. Experience in the intervening decades has confirmed the cardiac safety of ECT.