Electroconvulsive Therapy During COVID-19: An Essential Medical Procedure-Maintaining Service Viability and Accessibility

Affiliations

¹ From the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.
² Department of Psychiatry (Adjunct), Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC.
³ Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, GA.

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Randall T Espinoza et al. J ECT. 2020 Jun.

. 2020 Jun;36(2):78-79.

doi: 10.1097/YCT.0000000000000689.

¹ From the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.
² Department of Psychiatry (Adjunct), Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC.
³ Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, GA.

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Electroconvulsive Therapy in a Time of Coronavirus Disease.
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