Posted on 07/07/2013 7:02:42 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
the mean plasma elimination half-life of alprazolam is about 11.2 hours (range: 6.3 to 26.9 hours) in healthy adults
5 half-lives is about 2.5 days
The Neurologist on the case needs to go back to Residency
Do you have a living will? Ever been forced or coerced into filling one out at a hospital?
“The Neurologist on the case needs to go back to Residency “
I would have to agree with you. At the very least this person should spend a lot of time reviewing the criteria for brain death, especially reviewing all of the things that can falsely affect the assessment.
Then...did they harvest her organs?
—especially reviewing all of the things
—that can falsely affect the assessment.
Correct
First establish the absence of confounding factors
gain, for reference...
http://www.aan.com/pressroom/home/getdigitalasset/8470
Yeah, that's socialist propaganda used to sell "single payer"
The reason it costs more, is because of "cost shifting" where hospitals overcharge insured and cash paying patients in order to provide "free" healthcare to the dregs and medical welfare patients. That practice should be banned.
Regarding life expectancy, if you don't get killed by a gang-banger or car wreck, the US life expectancy is quite high.
In the case of infant mortality, US providers do all they can to save the lives of premies, and counts each live births as a human life. Socialist schemes do not.
Please everyone. Do not sign it. It's another good intentions gone bad.
Thanks, you’re probably right, especially about the preemies. As I think about it, the statistics came from the UN or WHO.
This is absolutely true, and a significant factor that confounds the statistics that liberals try to use to justify pushing us toward the failing European models. The other consideration regarding infant mortality is that we have a significant percentage of pregnancies in which there is drug use, alcohol abuse, and related factors that can markedly affect fetal development, birth weight, Apgar scores, etc.
Presactly
Perhaps they were practicing for their new positions on the odumbocare’s death panels. (”Hurry up guys, we have 157 more waiting”)
What was the doctors reply, and the end result?
I had a similar situation with my dad. He had a diabetic episode and was in a coma. The Dr. pushed me hard about feeding him.... “Are you SURE you want us to feed him? He could live like this for 20 years and he will NEVER wake up.” “Are you REALLY SURE you want us to feed him?”
Yes. Feed him. IF God wants him home you won’t be able to keep him here.
He woke up 10 days later. We had the best relationship of our lives for the last 2 years of his life.
“He woke up 10 days later. We had the best relationship of our lives for the last 2 years of his life.”
I will carry this with me as another crucial example of how easy it is to make mistakes in medicine, and as a reminder to never ever be dogmatic. I’m really happy to hear you had those years.
"10 Horrifying Premature Burials"
When the Les Innocents cemetery in Paris, France was moved from the center of the city to the suburbs the number of skeletons found face down convinced many people and several doctors that premature burial was very common.
Really fascinating article:
http://listverse.com/2010/02/02/10-horrifying-premature-burials/
Hey doc, what happened to my spleen?
My father retired from there. When I got my drivers license he said not to sign the organ donor card. He told me if I ended up in the emergency room and was half dead and there was somebody in need of an organ I could end up being the donor. This was nearly 25+ years ago.
Do not be an organ doner.....use up your organs so no one would want them...but you have to live long enough to do so... I use to have organ doner on my drivers license, but crossed it off...too easy to declare someone dead who is not. hurry, hurry, get those organs before the patient wakes up or gets better...big money in organ transplants....
Those years were a gift to me. My dad was a very difficult man to get along with. I think he and Jesus did a little business while he was "out", because he was the sweetest man ever when he came back.
Dr. David Mayer, general and vascular surgeon and an associate professor of clinical surgery at New York Medical College, also reviewed the records and found the use of a sedative perplexing.
"It would sedate her to the point that she would be non-reactive," Mayer said. "If you have to sedate them or give them pain medication, they're not brain dead and you shouldn't be harvesting their organs."
Duh! Who's brain dead? That nurse at least!
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