Its amazing what some disciplines can pass off as treatment and get away
with it
http://www.cchr.org/ect/eng/page02.htm
Regards
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ELECTRIC SHOCK
TREATMENT
PAIN AND FRAUD IN THE
NAME OF THERAPY
"Electric shock should not be
available as a choice just as
thalidomide is not available to
pregnant woman. After fifty
years of practicing this hoax,
psychriatrists are not likely to
suddenly agree that it is
hannful. As soon as they do,
they know there would be a rusli
of criminal and civil suits froin
which they would never
recover. Governments should
outlaw it."
Dr. Michael Chavin
For more information contact:
Citizens Commission on
Human Rights
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PO Box 5257 Auckland
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PO Box 257 Rotorua
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----- Original Message -----
From: "mdne adams" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 3:27 AM
Subject: Re: mist "therapy" in croup
> Hmm....experience based practice in the shower at home tells me that
> expectoration & productive noseblowing is more effective after steam
> inhalation :)
>
> Nikki Adams [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Randy Trinkle" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 3:23 AM
> Subject: Re: mist "therapy" in croup
>
>
> > > A brief literature search found the following
> > > "there is no evidence to support the continuing use of mist therapy in
> > > inpatient environments." (Macdonald 1997).
> > > What is current practice and is it based on evidence or is it
> ritualistic
> > > continuance of a 19th century practice?
> >
> > My *opinion* is that it is ritualistic practice. I've looked for
evidence
> > on this in the past and have also found the same small study that
> > showed no benefit. Our province's pediatric hospital has junked its
> > "croup tents", and other hospitals I've worked at have rarely if ever
> > used them. Normally inspired air is pretty well saturated with water
> > when passing over the nasal/oral mucosa. This assumes that the
> > child is well-hydrated - which may not be the case. But hydrating
> > the child would be - again, my opinion - more humane than putting
> > them in one of these things. The principal lesion is due to
> > inflammation and edema - so I don't see how mist "therapy" would
> > be of any benefit. Corticosteroids and epi address the lesion.
> > Water doesn't.
> >
> >
> > *******************************
> > Randy Trinkle, BScPharm BA
> > Geriatric and ambulatory care
> > Civic Health Centre
> > Vancouver, BC
> > Health Science Links:
> > http://www.pacificcoast.net/~rtrinkle
> > mailto:[log in to unmask]
> > ********************************
> >
> > I finally figured it out. If someone asks me if I'm
> > having a bad day it doesn't have anything to do with how
> > I actually feel. It's because they just found out that
> > they can't have what they want.
> >
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