Out on PubMed today is this article from Adriana Hermida of Emory University and colleagues, describing a new bedside assessment of cognitive functioning for use in ECT services:
ElectroConvulsive Therapy Cognitive Assessment (ECCA) Tool: A New Instrument to Monitor Cognitive Function in Patients Undergoing ECT
J Affect Disord, 269, 36-42 2020 Mar4[Online ahead of print] PMID: 32217341
The pdf is here.
The ECCA is offered as a simple, quick (less than 10 minutes) instrument for repeated cognitive assessment during a course of ECT. It is meant to be a more sensitive alternative to the MoCA and MMSE. As noted in the paper, it is available to practitioners at fuquacenter.org/ecca.
The ECCA is a welcome addition to the toolkit of rating scales/assessments for clinical use on ECT services; it will be interesting to see how it performs in wider use, how it compares to other instruments such as the QIDS, and how widely it is adopted.
The pdf is here.
The ECCA is offered as a simple, quick (less than 10 minutes) instrument for repeated cognitive assessment during a course of ECT. It is meant to be a more sensitive alternative to the MoCA and MMSE. As noted in the paper, it is available to practitioners at fuquacenter.org/ecca.
The ECCA is a welcome addition to the toolkit of rating scales/assessments for clinical use on ECT services; it will be interesting to see how it performs in wider use, how it compares to other instruments such as the QIDS, and how widely it is adopted.
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