Electroconvulsive therapy outpatient program recently established in a psychiatric day hospital - 13/04/16
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Introduction |
ECT outpatient program recently created in the Psychiatric Day Hospital in Ávila was designed to assess the safety and efficacy of continuation/maintenance electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in patients after ECT remission.
Objectives |
Description of the activity and objectives of an ECT outpatient program in a Psychiatric Day Hospital.
Methods |
Retrospective cross-sectional descriptive Study. The three patients who received the continuation/maintenance electroconvulsive therapy during the 10 months this unit has been opened were chosen as a sample.
Results |
From the opening of Psychiatric Day Hospital 10 months ago, 58 patients have been admitted; among them, three patients come to the hospital monthly to receive the electroconvulsive therapy, maintaining their psychopathological stability over time.
Conclusions |
With the creation of this new program we considered three types of objectives:
– therapeutic: a therapy applied in a more comfortable and satisfactory for the patient and family regime. To prevent relapse and exacerbations;
– management: benefits on the best use of existing resources:
– reduction in hospital admissions and readmissions,
– decrease in the average stay,
– reduction in visits to Emergency Services,
– allow referrals from outpatient department,
– individual monitoring of patients that complements the check at their Mental Health Team;
– teaching, training and investigation.
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Vol 33 - N° S
P. S553-S554 - mars 2016 Retour au numéroBienvenue sur EM-consulte, la référence des professionnels de santé.
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