Antidepressants during ECT

In this new section of the journal, I present a series of evidence-based case conferences. The clinical question that we seek to solve in each of this series is real, in the sense that it emanated from a real patient, a real clinical case that one of my residents was treating and that we discussed in our evidence-based case conferences. In presenting the case, however, I completely anonymise the scenario but hope it remains as real as it was. The procedure of evidence-based practices that I depict in this series may be completely familiar to some of our readers or may be quite new to others. How and why of this process may also be known or unknown, depending on your familiarity with EBM . In order to learn this process, please consult any one of the textbooks of EBM such as J AMA Users’ Guides to the Medical Literature. …