Changing use of ECT
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Combined use of ECT and psychotropic drugs.
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT),despite a significant psychopharmacological development and introduction of modern drugs in recent years, is still an important, biological treatment of proven, high clinical efficacy. In the management algorithms it is still considered as a method of choice in treatment of drug-resistant patients. No wider use of ECTmay in part result from fears of potential int...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.183.2.172-a