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Anaesthesia for electroconvulsive therapy: An overview with an update on its role in potentiating electroconvulsive therapy
Despite advances in pharmacotherapy, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) remains a mainstay treatment option in psychiatry since its introduction in 1930s. It can be used primarily in severe illnesses when there is an urgent need for treatment or secondarily after failure or intolerance to pharmacotherapy. The 'unmodified' technique of ECT was practised initially, with a high incidence of musculosk...
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Depression is diagnosed in 14 million Americans every year, and pharmacotherapy is the standard treatment. However, in approximately 50% of patients, pharmacology intervention does not resolve depression. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has been a mainstay as a treatment option for treatment-resistant major depression since its inception in the 1930s. It has also been shown to be effective in t...
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(being a private hospital) where often the most difficult patients are admitted. The situation with restricted patients is differ ent. The RMO has no authority to discharge the patient, although the Home Office could be accused of passing the buck. It is unfair that administrative officers and clerks, hundreds of miles away at the Home Office, should make this decision for some of the most diff...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Psikiyatride Guncel Yaklasimlar - Current Approaches in Psychiatry
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1309-0658
DOI: 10.5455/cap.20120421