PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Mayur Pandya AU - Leopoldo Pozuelo AU - Donald Malone TI - Electroconvulsive therapy: What the internist needs to know DP - 2007 Sep 01 TA - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine PG - 679--685 VI - 74 IP - 9 4099 - http://www.ccjm.org/content/74/9/679.short 4100 - http://www.ccjm.org/content/74/9/679.full SO - Cleve Clin J Med2007 Sep 01; 74 AB - Although electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is widely used to treat a number of psychiatric disorders, many physicians are still unfamiliar with the procedure, its indications, and its contraindications. This article is an internist’s guide to ECT, with particular focus on how commonly prescribed medications and medical conditions affect ECT.