Petition updateStandardize, Regulate & Audit Shock Treatments (Electroconvulsive therapy or ECT)BBC report reveals Bad Shock Treatment Practices for Depression
Sarah HancockSan Diego, CA, United States
May 12, 2021

Nine minute BBC Radio segment highlights how shock treatment (aka electroconvulsive therapy or ECT) is given without accurately measuring how treatment impacts patients. It mentions there are no agencies in charge of ensuring safe practice standards are maintained. Consequently, patients are harmed and then abandoned without comprehensive brain injury assessments and rehabilitation interventions. 

Here's the first of the BBC stories! Here's the first of the BBC coverage on this critical patient safety issue. Every country providing ECT has the same patient safety concerns!!

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