Erin Allman‑Updyke

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This Podcast Will Kill You · Ep 221 Electroconvulsive Therapy Part 2: A current conversation · 8 Sep 2026 podcast

Usually there's also a general physical exam that has to be done, either by a primary care or hospitalist physician or sometimes by a cardiologist to make sure that our heart and our body is overall healthy enough to withstand this procedure, especially the anesthesia.

We would then have to not eat anything for an entire night, and then the next morning we'd arrive to a room either in a hospital or an outpatient clinic, depending on the situation.

We would be wearing a hospital gown, like we always do for any of these kinds of procedures, and we'd probably be greeted by either a nurse or a technician and an anesthetist.

We'd get an IV put in our arm, we'd have a blood pressure cuff, they'd take our vitals.

Actually they'd put two blood pressure cuffs on, one on our arm and one on our right leg.

We'll talk about why in a second.

Okay.

And then while they're chatting with you, they'll start to hook up a whole bunch of wires that they're gonna use for monitoring us.

There'd be an EKG on our chest to monitor our heart during the procedure.

There'd be an EEG on our head to monitor the seizure in our brain.

And there would be an EMG or an electromylogram that would be placed on our right foot.

I'll tell you again why in a little bit.

The right foot, yeah.

And that's to monitor the seizure in the muscle itself.

We'd probably get a little bit of extra oxygen via a mask.

There might be a little thing put up our nose to monitor our CO2 levels, one of those clippies on our finger to monitor our blood oxygen.

And depending on what type of electrodes that are going to be used for this procedure, they might put those on our head right now, uh, if they're the sticky kind, or they might use the kind of more old school kind that are handheld.

In that case, you m you might not see those yet.

And then the anesthetist is gonna give us a medication that will put us to sleep.

There's a few different medicines that they use.

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