Posted on 09/04/2014 3:06:17 PM PDT by Dallas59
As Joan Rivers’ prognosis grows more dire each day, RadarOnline.com has learned that medical investigators are growing ever closer to uncovering the real reason the healthy 81-year-old was sent spiraling into a coma after a standard medical procedure. And according to insiders, they believe the culprit could be a fatal dose of Propofol — the same drug that killed Michael Jackson after he was administered a lethal dose.
“Certainly, they suspect the anesthesia was the issue, based on conversations between the staff and city medics,” a source close to the investigation told Radar.
(Excerpt) Read more at radaronline.com ...
This is what they used when I underwent an endoscopy. BOOM! It knocked me out in seconds. My grandmother had to drive me home even though I literally live a stone’s throw from the center.
I slept for two straight days.
Propofol is a fast acting, temporary anesthesia......quickly induced....quickly subsides.....if used sparingly and for minor surgeries.....hardly any side effects .....can be a very good drug.
Any drug can be misused.....or overdosed.
LOL!
The anesthesiologist is a very important person to pick if your going under
I know Doctor who raced across town to a hospital to stop a surgery because they changed his chosen anesthesiologist for his patient and literally marched into the prep area and stopped everything until the unwanted anesthesiologist was replaced with his choice.
The use of powerful anesthetic on older patients sometimes leaves long term irreversible harm to memory that is unpredictable . Well Joan left everyone stunned as usual. She had a great life.
If she's not dead, it wasn't fatal. Maybe they meant "fateful."
Is she dead??? If so, how could she have a “prognosis”?
I liked it...like....blink
Its over
Much easier than general
That’s what my husband said, too!
There’s a well known surgery center in town.....does brisk business....like endoscopies every day....
...and a few months ago .....thanks to Obamacare I believe....let go all 4 anesthesiologists (doctors) and replaced them with nurses with some anesthesia training.
They now have ONE anes.doctor to oversee the nurses.....and the patients are rolled into the surgery room continually........
Not good!
public school math education.
In my state, Propofol administration can be carried out by an MD and (in my case) a Registered Nurse. In fact, I give it to intubated patients very frequently, via IV pump and have never had a patient react adversely to it. If a patient does have a reaction, it's easy enough to bring them out and sedate them with other medications.
Propofol is a great drug, and like any other drug it is perfectly safe when administered carefully and under close observation. It gets a bad rap because of the whole Michael Jackson thing. But his doctor was a mouth-breathing idiot. So, I suspect, was Joan Rivers' doctor in this case.
I did a field trach on a kid with croup in Africa. It isn’t as easy as it sounds. And in some people, intubation is hard too...often elderly folks have arthritis and you can’t extend the neck enough to be sure the tube is in the right place.
and emts probably can intubate better than the average doc. Plus they have all the equipment right there.
The real question is who was keeping an eye on her breathing? Nowadays, most places have a small device that checks oxygen levels for you.
Yep
2 hours is like seconds
Well, I was just going on this from the excerpt:
Joan Rivers’ prognosis grows more dire each day....
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I guess it got to direst pretty soon after that.
Yes. Feeling good. Fast forward one hour. Still feeling good, surgery is over. You would think she would have highly skilled doctors. I suspect they dinged her with meds, like Kaganovich’s sister dinged Stalin.
The article is dated 9/3
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I read/heard that sometimes small doses of 3 different drugs are used in case a patient has an unknown problem with one medication.
The patient is fully anesthetized but not with a full dose of any one drug but rather with smaller doses of 3.
Right before she died she bashed Hamas and called Michelle Obama a tranny. Hmmmmm.
At least Pastor Chuck thinks I was on to something.
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