The mortality rate of electroconvulsive therapy: a systematic review and pooled analysis.

N TørringS N SanghaniG PetridesCharles H Kellner Søren Dinesen Østergaard

Published in: Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica (2017)

The ECT-related mortality rate was estimated at 2.1 per 100 000 treatments. In comparison, a recent analysis of the mortality of general anesthesia in relation to surgical procedures reported a mortality rate of 3.4 per 100 000. Our findings document that death caused by ECT is an extremely rare event.

Keyphrases

cardiovascular events
risk factors
cardiovascular disease
coronary artery disease
drug induced
clinical evaluation