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

They're pretty standard anesthetics like propofol or automatate.

No one cares about these names.

Okay.

Once you're unconscious, then that second blood pressure cuff, the one around our ankle, our right leg, is inflated.

The reason for this is that that's going to reduce the amount of blood flow to our right foot.

Not cut it off completely, but reduce the amount of blood flow to that foot.

And then they're going to administer another medication after we're unconscious.

And this one is a muscle relaxant.

Usually it's something called succinylcholine.

This kicks in pretty quickly and you can tell when it's kicked in because as you're administering it, it actually causes kind of these twitchings, these little tremors in your muscles, and then those tremors will stop.

Once those tremors stop, it means that you the muscles are completely relaxed.

Okay.

And then they're going to put a bite block in your mouth and that's to protect your teeth and your tongue.

And then they're going to administer a very brief pulse of electricity via those electrodes that either they stuck already onto your head or they're holding onto your head.

And by a very brief pulse of electricity, I literally mean on the order of seconds or sometimes even a half of a second of electricity.

The amount of electricity specifically that they're going to deliver depends on what your seizure threshold is.

But the goal is that it's enough electricity to cause a generalized seizure.

Now, this seizure is not going to be visible in your muscles the way that a grandma or a generalized tonic clonic seizure would be, because all of your muscles are relaxed.

But what you will be able to see is the seizure on EEG, which we're monitoring, and on EMG attached to the right foot, which has less blood flow, so has not been affected by the muscle relaxant sexinylcholine.

That seizure is only going to last between 25 and 70 seconds.

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