title: [Ethical, legal and medical problems concerning ECT administration].
abstract: Electroconvulsive treatment is a serious and effective biological therapy of current psychiatry which is associated with a certain risk. Treatment with ECT creates a series of problems of a ethico-moral nature which may be solved only in part by the gaining of informed consent of the patient for the treatment procedure. The procedure of gaining "informed consent" in relation to ECT ought to find its regulation in specific acts of the law. The problems concerned with ECT as with other problems in psychiatry should be demistified and become an element of general knowledge available to the whole of society.
authors.affiliation: Katedry i Kliniki Psychiatrii Collegium Medicum UJ w Krakowie.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Zyss
mesh_terms: D004565:Electroconvulsive Therapy / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*
vernacular_title: Problemy etyczno-medyczne i prawne zwiázane ze stosowaniem elektrowstrzşów.