On more than one occasion this office has been asked to confirm a state hospital patient's consent to ECT only to determine that the patient did not understand the decision he or she was being asked to make or that other less intrusive treatments had not been tried.
These are reports from people who had ECT in recent years and experienced permanent deficits in memory ability and other cognitive abilities (known as anterograde amnesia).
Disability Rights Mississippi to the proposed ECT device reclassification, 2009.
Maryland Disability Law Center to the FDA on ECT device reclassification, 2009.
Disability Rights Montana weighs in on the FDA's proposed ECT device reclassification, 2009.
Delaware Developmental disability council weighs in on FDA's 2009 proposed safety reclassification to the electroshock device.
Disability Rights Washington weighs in on FDA's proposed ECT device safety reclassification, 2009
The World Institute on Disability weighs in on 2009 FDA ECT reclassification hearings.