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cord-352846-p7hhv297	Bryson, Ethan O.	A strategy for management of ECT patients during the COVID-19 pandemic	2020-05-12		.txt	text/plain	2265	112	51	Since the American Psychiatric Association has taken the position that ECT is not an elective procedure (3, 4) most practices are continuing to treat critically ill patients, provided anesthesia services and ancillary staff are still available, but treatment has become anything but routine. Additionally, because the current COVID-19 PCR swab has a sensitivity of only 56-83% (5) and a thus up to a 40% false negative rate, even though patients referred for ECT were tested within 48 hours of their first treatment we chose to treat every patient as though they had been exposed and were potentially contagious. Electroconvulsive therapy is considered to be a procedure at high-risk for aerosolization of respiratory secretions during bag-mask ventilation, we decided to significantly alter our practice, moving treatment from the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) into one of the operating rooms.	./cache/cord-352846-p7hhv297.txt	./txt/cord-352846-p7hhv297.txt