Posted by stargazer2 on November 24, 2013, at 21:12:40
In reply to Re: Clinical Trials/TMS » stargazer2, posted by Hugh on November 24, 2013, at 12:06:59
Hugh,
The end of ECT would be a blessing. At X Hospital the interest was in ECT numbers not outcomes. Why doesn't anyone care how someone does after ECT is completed and if it is effective enough to do maintanence treatments rather than just do them? And should ECT be done on a demented person who has stopped eating? As far as I'm concerned when someone stops eating they are at the end of their life and doing ECT to make them eat is being done for the wrong reasons. I would never put my family member through such a procedure and can't understand why anyone would do this with medical urging. Someone in their 80's has lived a full life and a demented life is not be one worth living and you don't even know it nor can you consent to it. Everyone is not supposed to live to 90 just because others have had good healthy lives and have avoided dementia. Most of us will live alot less than 90 and that OK with me.
Sorry I digress. Just my observations from working wth ECT patients and having it once myself.
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