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Electroconvulsive therapy remains an effective treatment for psychiatric disorders, particularly depression, despite a decline in its use.
Provides an overview of the origins, indications, and side effects of electroconvulsive therapy for psychiatric disorders.
Supports considering electroconvulsive therapy for refractory depression despite declining utilization trends; leaves open the need for.
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is an effective, if somewhat controversial, treatment for a number of psychiatric disorders, particularly depression. Although use has declined, this is not due to lack of evidence to support the use of ECT, but because other treatments for psychiatric disorders, not always grounded in evidence, are being chosen. GPs are likely to have patients who have received ECT, or for whom ECT may well be considered following a referral to secondary care. This article considers the origins of ECT, the indications for use and side effects.
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Mills et al. (2017) conducted a review in Psychiatric disorders, particularly depression. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) was evaluated. Electroconvulsive therapy remains an effective treatment for psychiatric disorders, particularly depression, despite a decline in its use.
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