Abstract
This is a case of a woman in her 70s with treatment-resistant major depression who was admitted psychiatrically for the fifth time in 1.5 years. She had a history of intensive psychotherapy and psychotropic medication trials with poor efficacy. She also had a history of adverse complications to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) with prolonged seizures and postictal confusion during her third hospitalisation. At her fifth hospitalisation, due to poor response to routine psychiatric treatment, ECT was pursued. We discuss challenges in pursuing ECT and the outcome of the retrial of an acute ECT series, in the context of a paucity of similar literature regarding geriatric depression.
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