ECT in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic

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dc.contributor.author	Ramakrishnan, Venkata Subramanian	en
dc.contributor.author	Kim, Young Kwang	en
dc.contributor.author	Yung, Wanda	en
dc.contributor.author	Mayur, Prashanth	en
dc.date.accessioned	2020-09-24
dc.date.available	2020-09-24
dc.date.issued	2020	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/2123/23436
dc.description.abstract	OBJECTIVE: The recent and ongoing COVID-19 pandemic outbreak has placed a huge burden on healthcare systems worldwide. This emergent situation applies invariably to mental health services, and policy makers have issued new directives to adequately deal with this crisis. The COVID-19 outbreak poses special challenges to the administration of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) since the anaesthetic induction is an aerosol-generating process. The report provides a narrative account of modifications to the ECT practice at a tertiary care psychiatric hospital to mitigate the risk of COVID-19 transmission. CONCLUSION: We emphasise two main modifications: use of personal protective equipment (PPE) during the ECT and modifications in the anaesthetic procedure to mitigate potential transmission.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.rights	Other
dc.subject	COVID-19	en
dc.subject	Coronavirus	en
dc.title	ECT in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic	en
dc.type	Article	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1177/1039856220953705
usyd.faculty	Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney Medical School	en

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