Conditions: Post-anesthesia Recovery Orientation
Keywords: orientation post-anesthesia recovery electroconvulsive therapy
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: CROSSOVER
Enrollment: 20
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
When undergoing ECT treatments, patient recovery time and re-orientation time may be shorter using ketamine for induction than using methohexital.

Detailed description:
ECT treatments are done under general anesthesia, and the induction is commonly done with methohexital. We will study whether using ketamine as an induction agent will result in a faster recovery time and quicker re-orientation time compared to using methohexital.

Arms:
arm 1: This arm will receive ketamine for induction first, followed by alternating treatments between methohexital and ketamine arm 2: This arm will receive Methohexital first for induction, followed by alternating treatments between ketamine and methohexital.

Interventions: intervention 1: Ketamine intervention 2: Methohexital
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Ketamine (1.5mg/kg) will be given for induction, with room to titrate up to induction effect intervention 2: Methohexital (1.5mg/kg) will be given for induction

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