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These side effects are transient and respond to treatment. [35] There is evidence and rationale to support giving low doses of benzodiazepines or lower doses of general anesthetics, which induce sedation but not unconsciousness, to patients to reduce the likelihood of adverse effects of ECT. [58]
"Aside from the therapy’s crude beginnings, controversy may have also been caused by a lack of information given when practitioners obtain informed consent before treatment, unknown mechanism of action, lack of knowledge about the cognitive adverse effects that can occur, divergent views of clinicians and consumers about ECT, and wide ...
Instead, after weighing "the risks of adverse side effects compared with potential benefits to the patient," a doctor merely needs to convince a judge that "the treatment will produce the desired ...
Effectiveness and adverse effects [ edit ] In 2003 the UK ECT Review Group, led by Professor Geddes of Oxford University, reviewed the evidence and concluded that ECT had been shown to be an effective short-term treatment for depression—as measured by symptom rating scales—in physically healthy adults, and that it was probably more ...
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). ETC, or shock therapy, is considered effective for the most treatment-resistant symptoms of bipolar, like life-threatening mania and psychosis. Transcranial ...
] Electroconvulsive therapy can differ in its application in three ways: electrode placement, frequency of treatments, and the electrical waveform of the stimulus. These three forms of application have significant differences in both adverse side effects and symptom remission.
Electroconvulsive therapy is a therapy method, which was used widely between the 1930s and 1960s and is, in a modified form, still in use today. Valium and other sedatives have arguably been over-prescribed, leading to a claimed epidemic of dependence. These are a few of the arguments that the anti-psychiatry movement use to highlight the harms ...
The study found that the various techniques used when giving electroconvulsive therapy can have a direct impact on the adverse effects experienced by patients. Sackeim and colleagues later demonstrated that right unilateral electroconvulsive therapy with an ultra brief pulse appears to be the most efficacious, while remaining the least likely ...