Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction to electroconvulsive therapy
  • Patient selection for electroconvulsive therapy
  • Patient education and informed consent for electroconvulsive therapy
  • The pre-ECT medical work-up
  • Anesthesia for electroconvulsive therapy
  • ECT technique, part I : managing the individual treatment
  • ECT technique, part II : managing the course of treatments
  • Preventing relapse after ECT : maintenance ECT and pharmacotherapy
  • The cognitive effects of ECT
  • ECT versus other neuropsychiatric treatments.