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Awareness Reframe Assumption: Myths & Facts about “Electroconvulsive therapy”

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Volume 5 Issue 12 December 2015

❌ECT is old and outdated mode of treatment.

✅ECT is a cost effective, evidence based treatment option even today and is also one of the lifesaving option in patients with high suicidal ideas.

❌ECT is a painful procedure which can cause brain damage.

✅Modified ECT is carried out under short acting general anesthesia without pain and gross damage in brain.

❌ECT cause irreversible memory loss.

✅ECT cause minimal memory loss, especially immediate memory but in majority it recovers within few weeks.

❌ECT is not used in developed nations and not recommended in any of international guidelines.

✅ECT is recommended in almost all international guidelines and is carried out even in UK, USA.

By Swapnil Tripathi, final year, MBBS student, AIIMS, Jodhpur, Rajasthan

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