Open AccessElectroconvulsive Therapy in Canada During the First Wave of COVID-19
Author(s) -
Ilya Demchenko,
Daniel M. Blumberger,
Alastair J. Flint,
Melanie Anderson,
Zafiris J. Daskalakis,
Karen Foley,
Keyvan Karkouti,
Sidney H. Kennedy,
Karim Ladha,
Jamie Robertson,
A Vaisman,
David Koczerginski,
Sagar V. Parikh,
Venkat Bhat
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of ect/the journal of ect
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.062
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1533-4112
pISSN - 1095-0680
DOI - 10.1097/yct.0000000000000801
Subject(s) - electroconvulsive therapy , pandemic , covid-19 , medicine , perspective (graphical) , psychiatry , psychology , medical emergency , family medicine , cognition , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , artificial intelligence , computer science , pathology
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the provision of essential and potentially life-saving procedural treatments such as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). We surveyed ECT providers across Canada to understand how the first wave of the pandemic affected ECT delivery between mid-March 2020 and mid-May 2020.