Electroconvulsive therapy, personal protective equipment and aerosol generating procedures: a review to guide practice during Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

Objective: To review the literature on the definition of aerosol-generating procedures (AGPs), identify high-risk AGPs, guidelines to use personal protective equipment (PPE) and review evidence to see if electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a high-risk AGP requiring the use of PPE.

Methods: Existing guidelines and research data were reviewed to answer the questions.

Results: There is consensus about the type of anaesthesia used during ECT, what constitutes AGPs and what PPE should be used.