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Chapter 14 - Non-cognitive Adverse Effects of ECT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2019

By
Jonathan Waite
Edited by
I. Nicol Ferrier  and
Jonathan Waite
I. Nicol Ferrier
Affiliation:
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Jonathan Waite
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham
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Summary

Before effective treatments for depression were available many people admitted to hospital died. After the introduction of ECT, the proportion of patients in psychiatric hospitals with depression who died in hospital fell from about 15% to 2% (Slater, 1951). Although ECT is a potentially hazardous treatment, the alternatives are not free from risk (Coupland et al., 2011) and untreated depression carries a high morbidity and mortality.

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The ECT Handbook , pp. 121 - 128
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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