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MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2014 - SECT 192

192 .         Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT): meaning

                Electroconvulsive therapy is treatment involving the application of electric current to specific areas of a person’s head to produce a generalised seizure that is modified by general anaesthesia and the administration of a muscle relaxing agent.


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