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Is electroconvulsive therapy safe?
1Department of Medicine, New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center.
Postgraduate Medicine
|May 1, 1990
Abstract:
Electroconvulsive therapy is controversial and readily arouses the passions of both its supporters and detractors. In this article, Dr Schoen, an internist, discusses various aspects of this 50-year-old technique, including risks, contraindications, and physiologic effects.