RCPsych Free Members' Webinar: Dean's Grand Rounds - Catatonia and ECT: a European perspective

The Webinar will offer the opportunity to present a case of severe catatonia in an intensive care unit with a rapid and complete response to ECT, and will incorporate the service user's views. The webinar will provide delegates with an European overview of the awareness and knowledge of catatonia among psychiatrists, a review of the literature of ECT as treatment for psychiatric conditions including catatonia, and will also discuss current attitudes towards ECT.

This webinar is free to attend and will be taking place on Zoom. 

1. Introduction and welcome to the webinar
2. Patient experience/ Case presentation (Dr Myles Doyle).
3. Awareness and knowledge of catatonia and how to recognise it among psychiatrists (Professor Gabor Gazdag)
4. National UK data in usage and outcomes of ECT for catatonia (Dr Richard Braithwaite)
5. Overview of the literature of ECT in catatonia (Professor Linda Van Diermen)
6. Attitudes towards ECT in Norway and current trends and updates on ECT (Dr Eivind Aakhus)
7. Q+A
8. End of session and closing remarks