Abstract
Drs von Knorring and Hultcrantz break new ground by offering a promising approach to relieve the plight of asylum-seeking children suffering from prolonged catatonia. With immigration issues nowadays squarely in the crosshairs of society, politics, and the media, they thereby prove themselves to be staunch advocates for their patients.
We encourage them to pursue their efforts and to take this opportunity to advance knowledge on pediatric catatonia by considering ECT as a treatment option, and by conducting and publishing treatment and follow-up studies on those who received ECT. Laying this groundwork will help guide caregivers in the future when faced with similar presentations in asylum-seeking patients in detention centers worldwide, many of which are more hidden from public and medical scrutiny than in Sweden.