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European Forum For Electroconvulsive Therapy
 
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EFFECT

European Forum For Electroconvulsive Therapy

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European Forum For Electroconvulsive Therapy

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THE STORY OF EFFECT

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ECT is the most efficacious biological treatment for the most severe psychiatric disorders. In several European countries, however, psychiatrists and patients still struggle with the stigmatzing negative image of ECT. To ensure that patients and service users across Europe have access to safe and effective ECT when appropriate, a European Forum for ECT was founded.
In November 2005 Björn Wahlund (SE), Pascal Sienaert (BE) and King Han Kho (NL) decided to organize the EFFECT founding meeting. Several ECT psychiatrists across Europe were invited to join this meeting which took place in Leuven, Belgium, from 3-5 February 2006.
On February 4, 2006, The European Forum for ECT was inaugurated at the University Psychiatric Center – KU Leuven, campus Kortenberg in Belgium. An executive board was elected with Tom G. Bolwig (DK) as President, Björn Wahlund (SE) as Chairman, King Han Kho (NL) as Secretary, and Pascal Sienaert (BE) as Treasurer. Since then, EFFECT brought together clinicians and researchers to improve the practice of ECT, and to reduce its stigma .

THE GOALS OF EFFECT

European Forum for Electroconvulsive Therapy
COMBAT

Effect aims to combat the stigma associated with ECT

EDUCATE

Effect aims to educate mental health and other professionals about ECT and its use

PROMOTE

Effect aims to promote ECT research and to inform the general public about ECT and its use.

HIGH STANDARD
Effect aims to work towards a high standard of ECT practice across Europe and to develop guidelines

Education of Psychiatrists in ECT
ECT: the modern evidence base

14th Annual Meeting
European Forum for ECT (EFFECT)

jointly organized with the Biological Psychiatry Section of Polish
Psychiatric Association
and the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology  

Warsaw, Poland, Fri-Sat, October 25-26, 2024

Venue  

Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology

Sobieskiego 9, 02-957 Warszawa, Poland

Building S, Department of Forensic Psychiatry (Klinika Psychiatrii Sądowej), Lecture Hall, Second Floor 


Phone-central:
+ 48 22 45 82 800  

Organizer’s secretary: Phone +48 22 4582-510;
Email: mskrzynska@ipin.edu.pl 

 

Registration 

This meeting is for ECT practitioners, prescribers and researchers. All eligible participants need to register via www.theeffect.eu, with your name, full clinical/academic affiliation details and address, and e-mail.
 

This meeting is free to ECT practitioners who register from Poland. For all other participants the registration is complete after transfer of €100 to account:

IBAN-code: BE94 7795 9036 9114; BIC-code: GKCCBEBB 

  • Scientific meeting Friday, October 25th

    Official language of the day: Polish

    09:00 - 09:30 | Registration

    09:30 - 09:40 | Introduction and welcome
    Adam Wichniak
    (Biological Psychiatry Section of Polish Psychiatric Association)

    Gabor Gazdag
    (European Forum For Electroconvulsive Therapy)

    Representative of the Director of the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology

  • Clinical Practice Nuggets – first serving

    Chair: Łukasz Święcicki

    09:40 – 10:10 | Basic knowledge about ECT – indication, contradiction
    Anna Zofia Antosik

    10:10 – 10:40 | How to perform ECT – technical issues
    Agnieszka Permoda-Pachuta

    10:40 – 11:10 | Seizure monitoring during ECT
    Adam Wichniak

  • 11:10 - 11:30 Refreshment Break

    Chair: Adam Wichniak

    11:30 – 12:00 | Esketamine in the treatment of TRD
    Tbc
    (session sponsored by pharmaceutical company-only for medical doctors entitled to issue a prescription)

    12:00 – 12:30 | Social and cultural perception of ECT
    Łukasz Święcicki

    12:30 – 13:00 | ECT in catatonia
    Gábor Gazdag (in English, Semmelweis University, Hungary)

    13:00 – 13:30 | Residual symptoms and partial response to antidepressant treatment – importance for the patient's quality of life and further prognosis
    Anna Zofia Antosik
    (session sponsored by pharmaceutical company-only for medical doctors entitled to issue a prescription)

  • 13:30 – 14:30 Lunch Break / Visit to the ECT Facility

  • Clinical Practice Nuggets – second serving

    Chair: Anna Zofia Antosik

    14:30 – 15:00 | Anaesthesia for ECT
    Patryk Rodek

    15:00 – 15:30 | Efficacy of ECT in various indications
    Krzysztof Kucia

    15:30 – 16:00 | ECT in pregnancy
    Malgorzata Urban-Kowalczyk

    16:00 – 16:30 | ECT in the elderly population
    Monika Dominiak

    16:30 – 17:00 | Electrode placement and pulse width in ECT: what should I choose?
    Declan McLoughlin (in English; Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

  • Scientific meeting Saturday, October 26th

    Official language of the day: English
    09:00 - 09:30 | Registration

    09:30 - 09:40 | Introduction and welcome
    Adam Wichniak (Poland), Pascal Sienaert (Belgium)

  • ECT in Poland – past, present and future

    Chair: Adam Wichniak (Poland)

    09:40 - 10:00 | ECT use in Poland
    Anna Zofia Antosik (Poland)

    10:00 – 10:20 | Education of psychiatrists in ECT
    Piotr Jażdżyk (Poland)

    10:20 - 10:30 | Questions and answers

  • Translational research update

    Chair: Pascal Sienaert (Belgium)

    10:30 – 10:50 | Spade FMRi GEMRIC symposium
    Jean-Baptiste Belge, UC Luik (Belgium)

    10:50 - 11:10 | A prediction model for electroconvulsive therapy effectiveness in patients with major depressive disorder from the Dutch ECT Consortium (DEC)
    Dore Loef, Annemiek Dols (the Netherlands)

    11:10 – 11:30 | Copenhagen Real-World Clinical Outcomes of Continuation and Maintenance Electroconvulsive Therapy
    Anders Jorgensen (Denmark)

  • 11:30 - 12:00 Refreshment Break

    12:00 - 12:20 | Impact of Titration, Dosage, and pulse-width, across Age on Electroconvulsive Therapy Effectiveness in Depression
    Julia Meijer, Eric van Exel (the Netherlands)

    12:20 – 12:40 | Towards personalised M-ECT: the role of self-rating mood scales
    Liselotte Gezels (Belgium)

    12:40 – 12:50 | Questions and answers

  • 12:50 – 13:50 Lunch Break / Visit to the ECT Facility

  • Clinical Practice Nuggets

    Chair: Declan McLoughlin (Ireland)

    13:50 – 14:10 | Confusional states and ECT: a prospective cohort study
    Nathalie Denayer (Belgium)

    14:10 - 14:30 | ECT-related anxiety
    Jasmien Obbels (Belgium)

    14:30 – 14:50 | Transferring Complex Patients for ECT
    Olivia Dean (United Kingdom)

    14:50 – 15:10 | Advancing the role of the operating department practitioner in ECT
    Kay Fisher (United Kingdom)

    15:10 – 15:20 | Questions and answers

  • 15:20 - 15:50 Refreshment Break

  • Discussion Forum

    15:50 – 16:50 | Relapse prevention on the basis of a recent Delphi study
    Moderator: Indira Tendolkar (the Netherlands)
    Discussant 1 – 5‘ Declan McLoughlin (Ireland)
    Discussant 2 – 5‘ George Kirov (United Kingdom)
    Discussant 3 – 5‘Jordy Rovers (the Netherlands)

    16:50 | Closing remarks
    Adam Wichniak (Poland)
    Pascal Sienaert (Belgium)

BOARD

TOM BOLWIG (DK) president
PASCAL SIENAERT (BE) chair
GABOR GAZDAG (HU) secretary
DECLAN MCLOUGHLIN (IE) treasurer

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