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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
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