Informed Consent for Electroconvulsive Therapy--Finding Balance.
Informed consent underpins all medical decisions, including the decision to undergo electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Written informed consent remains the standard before the initiation of ECT and requires the inclusion of several components to be considered valid. Prospective patients must be aware of risks and benefits of ECT as well as risks and benefits of alternate, and potentially less effective, interventions. Patients must also possess adequate decision-making capacity to make an informed choice about treatment. Consent for ECT may present unique issues, such as the interplay between potential cognitive adverse effects and informed consent. Options to address this concern include thorough explanation of this topic before the initiation of ECT, continued reassessment of consent during ECT, or some combination of approaches.
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Published In
DOI
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Start / End Page
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Related Subject Headings
- Risk
- Psychiatry
- Patient Education as Topic
- Informed Consent
- Information Dissemination
- Humans
- Electroconvulsive Therapy
- Decision Making
- 5203 Clinical and health psychology
- 3209 Neurosciences