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Electric shock therapy Beijing Huilongguan Hospital died Internet addiction

Xinhua News Agency on the 13th for the city of Linyi in Shandong Province to carry out a psychiatric hospital "Xingnaojing shock therapy" cure "Internet addiction" of the situation, the Ministry of Health on the 13th in its official website clearly calls for an end to electrical stimulation (or electro-shock) in the treatment of " Internet addiction, "Clinical application of technology.

Ministry of Health pointed out that the electrical stimulation to the scientific definition of indications and efficacy of therapy, the protection of medical quality and medical safety, the Ministry of Health experts on the "Internet addiction" treatment issues related to fully research and demonstration.

The experts agreed that the electrical stimulation treatment of "Internet addiction" technology of safety, effectiveness is not exact, there is no relevant domestic and international clinical research and evidence-based medicine based on temporary should not be applied to clinical.

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Electric shock therapy is not suitable for Internet addiction

Beijing Huilongguan Hospital Chief Physician, Professor Di Xiaolan told reporters that the current electric shock therapy for people there are certain errors, often referred to as the "shock", its formal name should be "modified electroconvulsive modern (MECT)" therapy.

Since 2002, which modified electroconvulsive shock therapy has been used in the Huilongguan Hospital over eight years, no accident safe. However, Professor Di said that as a result of this treatment is the need for general anesthesia, so the needs of families in the treatment of pre-signed.

Di Xiaolan, currently the only approved indication for the three categories, namely non-organic stupor, depression and suicidal tendencies with a strong and exciting non-organic. Net addiction is not the indication for such therapy, but if Internet addiction arising from the obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression adapted to other diseases, can try to use this therapy.

Beijing Military Region, director of the Center for Addiction Taoran medical treatment that is not the center of the project.

Tao said: "The Ministry of Health stopped a very timely, because the network of addiction treatment is unscientific, but the scope of the use of super. Had only heard of a similar therapy for conduct disorder or discipline against children, in fact, 'shock' is not a treatment, but rather with the role of certain penalties, to let children have pain, they dare not repeat. "

Text / reporter Wang Xia Fan

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