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The Effects of Intravenous Insulin in Sakel'S Hypoglycaemic Treatment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

A. M. Spencer
A. M. Spencer*
Affiliation:
Joint Counties Mental Hospital, Carmarthen
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The use of intravenous insulin in Sakel's shock treatment as an alternative to intramuscular insulin was first reported by Ventriglia (1939), whose findings may be summarized as follows:

(1) Hypoglycaemic symptoms appear more quickly than with intramuscular insulin, so that the pre-shock period is shortened.

(2) The coma dose of insulin is reduced by 50 per cent. on an average, but may be reduced by considerably more.

(3) In some cases the hypoglycaemic symptoms are more abrupt and violent.

(4) There is a greater tendency to tonic-clonic spasms and convulsions generally.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 93 , Issue 392 , July 1947 , pp. 483 - 521
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1947 

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