CME AND WORKSHOP

Interventional Psychiatry
Focus on mECT New Approaches |

Focusing on various Interventional modalities in Psychiatry. Beginning with the oldest and still the most recommended approach for managing difficult case scenarios – modified electroconvulsive therapy (mECT)

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Interventional Psychiatry

Focus on Modified Electroconvulsive Therapy (mECT)

We are pleased to announce the upcoming workshop and CME on modified electroconvulsive therapy. We aim to provide detailed knowledge and practical hands-on training to psychiatry trainees and practitioners throughout the country.

This CME and workshop will include lectures and presentations from experts in the field of neuromodulation from across the nation. To ensure adequate learning and hands-on training opportunities, we have kept the maximum number of participants to 20 only.

Registration is mandatory for participation and will cover high tea, lunch, and dinner for a day.

Program Details

Highlights of CME and Workshop

Learn modified ECT techniques with focus on right unilateral electrode placement

Hands on Training

Live mECT session will be conducted for training in real time

Anesthesia Use

Utility of various anesthetic agents will be described

Electrode Placement

Use of different electrode placement techniques

EEG reading

How to make sense of EEG during mECT

ECT Machines

Various ECT machines will be demonstrated

Titration Charting

Gauging ECT parameters adequacy through titration

Dummy Practice

Handheld practice on Dummy and impedance practice on volunteer

Theoretical Understanding

Basics and critiques of mECT understanding

Organizer

Department of Psychiatry AIIMS New Delhi

The Department of Psychiatry had informal beginning in 1958 and has been a pioneer in providing mental health services in a General Hospital Setting. Currently primary mandate of the department is to develop highly trained manpower, curriculum and techniques for undergraduate and postgraduate medical education.

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