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New survey highlights key role of ECT for treating severe depression, other conditions
When the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in North America in March 2020, health care facilities stopped providing all but essential care, to reduce infection risks and preserve protective gear known as PPE.
That included changes at many centers that provide ECT (electroconvulsive therapy) for severe depression and other conditions, a new survey shows.
Because ECT involves anesthesia, so that patients are unconscious when carefully controlled pulses of electricity are delivered to key areas of the brain, it is considered an aerosol generating procedure. That means it poses special risks when a respiratory virus such as the novel coronavirus is in widespread circulation.
A new survey looks at the changes prompted by the pandemic at many centers that provide ECT (electroconvulsive therapy) for severe depression and other conditions.