The roles of the ECT Psychiatrist and Primary Outpatient Psychiatrist trist

The roles of your ECT psychiatrist and your primary psychiatrist (pp): these roles ideally will be interconnected. The ECT psychiatrist will be monitoring your response to ECT treatment to treatment and will be make the recommendations re: your treatment schedule. Your pp will remain responsible for your medication management and overall care. The ECT psych will manage specific side effects of the ECT and communicate any recommendations for changes to your medications during the course of treatment to you pp. Some primary psychiatrists have a very "hands-off" approach when their patients are having ECT and this can create issues for the patient's care.