Knowledge And Attitude on Electro Convulsive Therapy Among Primary Care Givers
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Unilateral electro-convulsive therapy.
ELECTRO-CONVULSIVE therapy was first introduced by Cerletti and Bini in 1938, and has now become the principal physical method of therapy in psychiatry. Unhappily, whilst this method of treatment is at present enjoying such deserved popularity, it is not without undesirable effects, some of which may be quite insidious. Modification by relaxants has resulted in a change in importance of its com...
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عنوان ژورنال: IOSR Journal of Nursing and Health Science
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2320-1940,2320-1959
DOI: 10.9790/1959-0504040105