ECT custom and practice
About: This article is published in The Psychiatrist. The article was published on 01 Nov 1988. and is currently open access.
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Old age psychiatrists' views on the use of ECT
TL;DR: There was broad agreement over when ECT might be the treatment of choice and whether certain psychotropic drugs should be discontinued during treatment, but opinion diverged regarding other investigations.
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Training to administer electroconvulsive therapy: A survey of attitudes and experiences
Graeme Halliday,Gordon Johnson +1 more
TL;DR: Most trainees indicated limited theoretical teaching in this area, and almost none were aware of a formal training scheme at their respective hospitals, and priority should be given to their implementation.
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What do we think about our training
TL;DR: A working party of the Collegiate Trainees' Committee of the Royal College of Psychiatrists sent a questionnaire to all trainees taking Part II of the MRCPsych examination in October 1992, asking about their satisfaction with various aspects of their training, but specific areas showed wide variation.
Ect in late life
TL;DR: Electroconvulsive therapy is still used widely to treat elderly people, despite all the drugs available today, so old age psychiatrists to have a working knowledge of ECT is important.
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Administration of electroconvulsive therapy: training, practice and attitudes
TL;DR: In this paper, Pippard has drawn attention to a tendency for practice to depend on established custom rather than research evidence, and to a lack of consultant involvement in ECT teaching.
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Experimental studies of memory impairment after electroconvulsive therapy
TL;DR: The object of the present investigation was to examine whether the adverse effect of ECT on memory performance is mainly dependent upon the intensity of the electrical stimulus, or upon the induced, electroencephalographically recorded, seizure activity.
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Electroconvulsive treatment in Great Britain.
J Pippard,L Ellam +1 more
TL;DR: A survey of the practice of electroconvulsive treatment, ECT, in Great Britain was made during 1980-81 for the Royal College of Psychiatrists, supported by grants from the Department of Health and Social Security and the Scottish Home and Health Department as mentioned in this paper.