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Older men tend to have higher thresholds than younger women, but it is not a hard and fast rule, and other factors, for example drugs, affect seizure threshold. Immediately prior to treatment, a patient is given a short-acting anesthetic such as methohexital , propofol , etomidate , or thiopental , [ 1 ] a muscle relaxant such as suxamethonium ...
Simone D., a pseudonym for a psychiatric patient in the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in New York, [10] who in 2007 won a court ruling which set aside a two-year-old court order to give her electroshock treatment against her will [11] [12] Duplessis Orphans Orphans of the 1950s in the province of Quebec, Canada, endured electroshock.
The study concluded that efficacy of electroconvulsive therapy in patients with treatment-resistant depression was overall high with no major difference found in efficacy with respect to variables like age, gender, and psychosis”. [2]
In the study of people ages 65 and older, 8.15% of women treated by female physicians died within 30 days, compared with 8.38% of women treated by male physicians.
The study reported a significant reduction in the frequency of severe problem behaviours by 97% within the observed patient group. This effectiveness was observed across various patterns of patient response to the GED, including cases where behaviours immediately returned upon removal of the device and cases where the GED could be permanently ...
In 1927, Sakel, who had recently qualified as a medical doctor in Vienna and was working in a psychiatric clinic in Berlin, began to use low (sub-coma) doses of insulin to treat drug addicts and psychopaths, and when one of the patients experienced improved mental clarity after having slipped into an accidental coma, Sakel reasoned the treatment might work for mentally ill patients. [3]
Ralph Capone, a doctor who is a former hospice director, said he would have never admitted a patient who hadn’t given consent. While declining to comment on the specifics of Maples’ case, McNamara, the president of Vitas’ parent company, said admission decisions are made by doctors, and that Medicare guidelines in fact give them great ...
A 2012 study conducted by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University concluded that the U.S. treatment system is in need of a “significant overhaul” and questioned whether the country’s “low levels of care that addiction patients usually do receive constitutes a form of medical malpractice.”