Assertion: ect | /r/ObjectUse | used in patient
Facets:
value: with bipolar disorder
type: OTHER
value: generally
type: DEGREE
value: with severe major depression
type: OTHER
value: most commonly
type: DEGREE
value: with schizophrenia
type: OTHER
value: most often
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: It is also used in patients who suffer from mania, and some forms of schizophrenia.
text: ECT is generally used when patients have not responded to other treatments, when other treatment modalities appear to be less safe or difficult to tolerate, or when psychiatric/medical conditions require patients to recover quickly.
text: ECT is used most often for patients who:
text: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a medical treatment most commonly used in patients with severe major depression, schizophrenia, or bipolar disorder who are unresponsive to other types of treatments.
text: It can also be used for patients who have unbearable side effects from their medications or who need to rapidly improve their symptoms.
text: Generally used in patients who have failed adequate trials of other therapies, ECT is occasionally an urgently indicated, even lifesaving, first-line intervention in particularly severe illness such as catatonic or suicidal presentations.
text: Despite the popular disgust for this treatment, ECT is still used in patients with psychiatric disorders that have not responded to other therapies, most commonly major depression and bipolar disorder.