Ethical, legal and medical problems concerning ECT administration
Zyss, T.
Psychiatria Polska 29(1): 13-24
1995
ISSN/ISBN: 0033-2674 PMID: 7878149 Document Number: 447647
Electroconvulsive treatment is a serious and effective biological therapy of current psychiatry which is associated with a certain risk. Treatment with ECT creates a series of problems of a ethico-moral nature which may be solved only in part by the gaining of informed consent of the patient for the treatment procedure. The procedure of gaining "informed consent" in relation to ECT ought to find its regulation in specific acts of the law. The problems concerned with ECT as with other problems in psychiatry should be demistified and become an element of general knowledge available to the whole of society.