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CASE REPORT

COMBINED INSULIN COMA AND ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY FOLLOWING CARDIAC SURGERY
Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.110.10.786

This paper presents a patient—the first, we believe—who, after cardiac surgery, successfully endured both insulin coma and electroconvulsive therapies. We feel that with the rapid increase in cardiac surgery and the resultant new way of living, other psychotic reactions may develop which will require shock therapies.

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