A comparison of multiple and single electroconvulsive therapy
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Published on: July 9, 2017
The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
|April 1, 1982
Abstract:
In a retrospective study of 30 patients receiving either single ECT (N = 17) or multiple monitored ECT (N = 13), no difference in effectiveness or safety was seen between treatments. However, patients who received multiple monitored ECT had fewer sessions of general anesthesia and a significantly more rapid course of treatment.

