ECT in Mania (and Mixed States)

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Chapter 4 - ECT in Mania (and Mixed States)

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 June 2019

R Hamish McAllister-Williams

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I. Nicol Ferrier and

Jonathan Waite

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I. Nicol Ferrier: Affiliation:
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Jonathan Waite: Affiliation:
University of Nottingham

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While there is no mention of ECT in the current NICE guidelines on bipolar disorder (NICE Guidelines; CG185, 2014), ECT is included as a recommended treatment for both manic and mixed affective episodes in bipolar disorder in the American Psychiatric Association Clinical Practice Guidelines (2002), the World Federation of Biological Psychiatry guidelines (Grunze, et al., 2010) and the British Association for Psychopharmacology bipolar guidelines (Goodwin, et al., 2016). Since the previous edition of The ECT Handbook, two narrative and one systematic reviews have been published that describe the evidence base regarding the use of ECT in manic and mixed affective episodes (Loo, et al., 2011; Versiani, et al., 2011; Thirthalli, et al., 2012).

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Information: The ECT Handbook , pp. 32 - 37

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