Model for ethical triaging of electroconvulsive therapy patients during the COVID-19 pandemic

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is an essential treatment for severe mental illnesses such as depression with suicidality and catatonia. However, its availability is being threatened by resource limitations and infection concerns due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This may necessitate the triage of patie...

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Autores principales: Tor, Phern-Chern, Tan, Jacinta, Loo, Colleen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7492578/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32811589
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2020.99
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description Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is an essential treatment for severe mental illnesses such as depression with suicidality and catatonia. However, its availability is being threatened by resource limitations and infection concerns due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This may necessitate the triage of patients for ECT but there is no established ethical framework to prioritise patients. We offer an application of an ethical framework for use of scare medical resources in the ECT setting.
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spelling pubmed-74925782020-09-16 Model for ethical triaging of electroconvulsive therapy patients during the COVID-19 pandemic Tor, Phern-Chern Tan, Jacinta Loo, Colleen BJPsych Bull Special Articles Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is an essential treatment for severe mental illnesses such as depression with suicidality and catatonia. However, its availability is being threatened by resource limitations and infection concerns due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This may necessitate the triage of patients for ECT but there is no established ethical framework to prioritise patients. We offer an application of an ethical framework for use of scare medical resources in the ECT setting. Cambridge University Press 2020-08-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7492578/ /pubmed/32811589 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2020.99 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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