Posted by linkadge on February 5, 2011, at 11:06:54
In reply to Re: ECT Could Be On The Way Out per FDA, posted by Sailboat77 on February 4, 2011, at 16:39:22
Without any way of knowing when the treatment will work and when it won't, its difficult to give recomendations.
I don't think the treatment should be denied to anybody for whom it has worked previously.
However, recomending it to new patients should be based on a statistical cost / benefit ratio. It is arguable that previous analysis for ECT are somewhat flawed.
If a drug worked miraculously in 1 yet killed 99 out of 100, it would be hard to recomend (dispite the rave reviews from that 1).
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