Electroconvulsive therapy, practice and evidence
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Electroconvulsive therapy, practice and evidence.
This issue includes the findings from the largest randomised controlled trial ever conducted with bilateral, unilateral and bifrontal electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). The background to the study and its findings are discussed.
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The first electroconvulsive treatment was admin istered by Cerletti and Bini in 1938. The event was essentially an experiment, carried out like a military operation (Endler, 1988).The patient was stimulated three times, each time increasing the intensity of the stimulus before a generalised seizure was induced. He had been suffering from an acute psychosis with a poor prognosis, but responded t...
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This is the first survey of the practice of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in the Republic of Serbia. A retrospective chart review was undertaken including all patients having received ECT in Serbia in 2012. Only one center in Serbia offered ECT in 2012 to a total of 54 patients (54% women). Thirty-six (36) patients received acute ECT treatment and eighteen (18) patients maintenance ECT, yield...
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To explore contemporary (from 1990) utilization and practice of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) worldwide. Systematic search (limited to studies published 1990 and after) was undertaken in the databases Medline, Embase, PsycINFO, SveMed, and EBSCO/Cinahl. Primary data-based studies/surveys with reported ECT utilization and practice in psychiatric institutions internationally, nationally, and re...
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The present study was carried out in the Psychiatry Service at Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA) and Department of Psychiatry at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. * Resident physician in psychiatry, HCPA, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. ** Psychiatrist, PhD in Clinical Medicine, Medical School (FAMED), UFRGS, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. *** Psychiatr...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.109.074054