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❌ECT is old and outdated mode of treatment.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
