The Technique of ECT
with Drs. Richard Abrams & Conrad Swartz
This modern color videotape by Drs. Richard Abrams and Conrad Swartz teaches the ECT skills that modern practitioners need to know, according to the American Psychiatric Association's new "Recommendations for Treatment, Training, and Privileging".
From calculation of medication dosages through stimulus delivery, seizure and recovery and the events that can complicate them -- Drs. Abrams and Swartz explain and illustrate the modern standards of ECT technique and practice. This 45 minute tape is part of an educational package that includes a step-by-step guide that corresponds to the videotape program, an ECT Instruction Manual and a copy of the APA Task Force's clinical recommendations on ECT.
Topics covered:
- Patient Selection
- Laboratory Workup
- Informed Consent
- Preparation of Patient
- The ECT Stimulus
- Anesthesia Techniques
- EEG and EKG monitoring
- The seizure threshold
- Medical physiology
- Recovery room management
- Complications
- Precautions
- Maintenance/Continuation Therapy
- Ambulatory ECT