ECT is an exceptionally effective medical treatment, helping 90% of patients who take it. Most patients remain well for many months afterwards. The tendency to relapse after a favorable treatment outcome can often be countered by medication taken for up to a year after ECT. Permanent cures for psychiatric illnesses are rare, however, regardless of the treatment given. Virtually always, just as with any medical procedure.

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With the patient reclining, a sleeping medication is injected in a vein and the patient rapidly falls asleep. A muscle-relaxing medication is then injected, while the patient breathes pure oxygen. When the patient's muscles are relaxed, a brief electrical charge is applied to the scalp, stimulating the brain into rhythmical activity that lasts about a minute and is accompanied by release of chemicals from nerves in the brain. Mild contractions of the muscles occur during this "convulsion.

A 1999 study from California found about one death per 50,000 treatments, which is far below the risk of childbirth. Other studies have shown that death from heart attack and other causes is less frequent among depressed patients who received ECT than among those who did not. With modern anesthesia, fractures and oxygen deprivation virtually never occur, and most patients with high blood pressure or heart conditions can now safely receive ECT.

Severe depression (melancholia) is the most frequent indication for ECT. Patients with this illness experience sadness and despair, have difficulty concentrating, lose appetite and weight, sleep poorly, blame themselves, are unable to enjoy life, and often think of suicide. Mania and schizophrenia are other illnesses that can be helped by ECT.

ECT is given by a treatment team of doctors, nurses, and nursing assistants, including an anesthesia specialist. Virtually all ECT is given in hospitals or ambulatory care centers, in a specially-equipped area, either on an inpatient or outpatient basis.

Answer: A curative discharge is an order of the court when an accused is found guilty of impaired driving, but is in need of curative treatment in relation to drugs or alcohol. The accused is found guilty of the offence and in lieu of a conviction, the court sentences the accused to probation, a condition of which is to receive treatment for the drug or alcohol problem.

Although it is necessary for the brain cells to interact with each other chemically and electrically for ECT to work, exactly how this interaction is therapeutic needs further investigation. We believe that patients with melancholia have a severe biochemical disorder of the nervous system that ECT corrects. A number of rigorously-designed research projects are under way to study this question.

On awakening from ECT, it is customary for patients to experience some confusion, which generally clears within an hour. Although most patients consider their memory function significantly improved after ECT, memory for some recent events, dates, names of friends, public events, addresses and telephone numbers may not be as good. In most patients the memory disturbance goes away within a few days or weeks, but it occasionally continues in a mild form for a period of months, or longer.

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The quality of the ECT-induced seizure is a reflection of the degree to which the seizure is generalized throughout the brain. Traditionally, seizure quality is evaluated by examining the paper EEG record for signs of high amplitude, rhythmical discharge patterns, symmetry, and a sharp voltage drop (postictal suppression) at seizure termination (Fink and Abrams, 1998).

The available evidence speaks strongly against this possibility. Patients receiving ECT show no elevation of brain enzymes and proteins that are released into the bloodstream when brain damage occurs, such as after a stroke. Carefully-controlled animal studies have shown no evidence of brain damage from brief seizures as given with ECT, and sensitive brain-imaging studies performed months after ECT have shown no structural changes.

Mode of action. VNS Therapy works differently from ECT. ECT affects large parts of the brain. Through the vagus nerve, VNS Therapy affects specific sites in the brain—sites associated with the symptoms of depression. And unlike ECT, VNS Therapy does not cause a seizure. Time frame. ECT works quickly1, but often the effects wear off after a while2. The benefits of VNS Therapy improve over time and are sustained long term. 3 Side effects.

ECT is a very effective form of treatment. Every individual is unique as is their response to ECT. Although the quality of response and the speed of response may vary from person to person, the response is generally perceived by patients, family members, and healthcare providers as very positive.

Yes. Receiving hospice care is always a choice. A patient may leave hospice and return to curative treatment if that is their choice. If the patient later chooses to return to hospice care, Medicare, Medicaid and most insurance companies permit re-activation of the hospice benefit.

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) uses high-energy magnetic fields to induce electric currents in the brain. Thus, like ECT, TMS is a brain electrical stimulation treatment method. Such stimulation can be administered at doses too low to induce a seizure (nonconvulsive TMS) or at seizure-inducing levels (convulsive TMS).

Yes, one that has been used for over 60 years. A blue-ribbon panel convened in 1985 by the U.S. Government's National Institutes of Mental Health found that ECT was "demonstrably effective for a narrow range of severe psychiatric disorders", including depression, mania and schizophrenia. In 1990 and in 2001, the American Psychiatric Association reaffirmed ECT as effective for all types of major depression and manic-depressive illness, and for some instances of schizophrenia.

Just as with other medical treatments, from appendectomy to penicillin, ECT was used excessively in the past, mostly in large, understaffed mental hospitals in the 1940s. The drama of mental illness has also been exploited by fictional movies such as "The Snake Pit" that included stark and exaggerated portrayals of ECT to emphasize a story.

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In many cases, you can pursue curative treatment to help cure your illness as you receive palliative care to help keep you comfortable. However, at some point you may want or need to choose which type of treatment takes priority. Stopping curative treatment is an option when it is very clear that your illness cannot be cured. Focusing on pain relief and symptom management does not mean that you will not have access to your doctor or to excellent care.

Certainly. Patients can be discharged from Hospice and return to aggressive therapy or go on about their daily lives. A patient may relinquish their Hospice benefit at any time and return to aggressive treatment. If a patient's condition improves, the Hospice team may recommend discharge. If a discharged patient should later need to return to Hospice care, Hospice will be available at that time.