Assertion: ect | /r/HasProperty | indicated
Facets:
value: occasionally
type: DEGREE
value: urgently
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: ECT is indicated when patients need rapid improvement because they are suicidal, self-injurious, refuse to eat or drink, cannot or will not take medication as prescribed, or present some other danger to themselves.
text: ECT is also indicated when patients need a treatment that brings about rapid improvement because they are refusing to eat or drink, or presenting some other danger to themselves.
text: ECT evaluations have been completed, 3) determining that ECT is still indicated, 4) ensuring that ECT is delivered in accordance with policies and procedures, 5) instituting modifications in ECT as indicated, and 6) ensuring proper documentation of evaluations and treatment results.
text: Once the patient and the physician have decided that ECT may be indicated, the patient should undergo a pretreatment medical examination that includes a history, physical, neurologic examination, EKG, and laboratory tests.
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: means being willing to prescribe ECT when it is indicated; not allowing ourselves to be intimidated by sensationalist misinformation; and continuing to educate ourselves, our colleagues and our patients about the proper role of ECT in the treatment of severe psychiatric illness.