ผู้วิจัย/Authors: Chutid Panprecha

ชื่อเรื่อง/Title: ECT: Now and Future

แหล่งที่มา/Source: Journal of The Psychiatric Association of Thailand, Vol. 33, No.1 January-March 1988, P 1-9

รายละเอียด / Details:

ECT is now used to treat the patients suffered from some specific psychiatric disorders. Only the modified method of ECT is recommended. The electrode placement can be applied bilatterally or unilaterally. It is preferable to have ECT with EEG monitor. Brief-pulse stimulator ECT would make the patient less amnesic. In the future, unilateral ECT will be popularly used. Some particular organic mental disorders can be safely and effectively treated by ECT. It is expected to find more cases died by receiving high dosage of antipsychotic drugs if the law against ECT is still existed. In Thailand, there are still under used of ECT, especially in the general hospitals. The majority of cases are treated by non-modified method of Medcraft ECT apparatus. It is found that the medical students and psychiatric residents have inadequate ECT knowledge. The author recommends the psychiatrists to be more careful in using ECT. Those who order ECT should have enough skill. The public medias can help us in giving appropriate information regarding all aspects of ECT knowledge to the people. As ECT will be fifty years old by the year 1988, the psychiatric association of Thailand should arrange academic celebration.

Keywords: ECT, psychiatry, ect, electro convulsive therapy, psychosis, psychiatric disorder, treatment, Thailand, history

ปีที่เผยแพร่/Year: 1988

Address: Somdejchaopraya Hospital, Department of Mental Health, Ministry of Public Health.

Code: 100313301222

ISSN/ISBN: 0125-6985

Country of publication: Thailand.

Language: English.

Category: Abstract Journal.

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