Mississippi Administrative Code
Title 24 - Mental Health
Part 1 - Policies of the Mississippi Board of Mental Health
Chapter 4 - Treatment Programs
Subchapter 1 - Administration of ECT
Rule 24-1-4.1.8 - INFORMED CONSENT

A. In order to obtain informed consent, the following information must be communicated:

B. If consent is being sought from a surrogate, an effort should be made to inform that person of statements made by the patient about such treatment.

C. Consent should be obtained in writing by a physician and shall be witnessed. When the surrogate cannot be contacted other than by telephone, informed consent may be obtained by telephone and such conversation will be witnessed by a member of the hospital staff nurse, physician's secretary, social worker, hospital switchboard operator. Both the physician and the witness will then document the elements of the acquired informed consent along with the date and time in the patient's medical record.

D. When consent is obtained by telephone, arrangements should be made immediately thereafter by the social worker to mail a copy of the approved hospital ECT consent form to the person from whom consent was obtained and request that the from be returned to the hospital signed, witnessed, dated, and timed.