Interesting article.....
Bttt
From the article:
“ Midazolam is a commonly used drug in palliative care and is considered one of the four essential drugs needed for the promotion of quality care in dying patients in the United Kingdom. Think of it as diazepam on steroids.
Midazolam is also a drug that has been used in executions by lethal injection in the USA, combined with two other drugs. Midazolam acts as a sedative to make the prisoner unconscious. The other drugs then stop the lungs and heart working. However it has been the source of controversy as several prisoners took a long while to die and appeared to be in pain when midazolam was used.
Midazolam can also cause serious or life-threatening breathing problems such as shallow, slowed, or temporarily stopped breathing that may lead to permanent brain injury or death.”
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You can’t intubate a conscious patient.
Also, when they are going to be placed on a vent, their breathing needs to be very slow or stopped all together as the machine will force O2 into them.
I had to crash a patient with Morphine in order to intubate them.
In the field otherwise I would have used another drug.
The Morphine also knocked out their breathing so they’re were totally relaxed and relying on me breathing for them with a BVM and 100% O2.
It’s articles like this written by people that don’t have knowledge and understanding and then repeated by people that don’t have knowledge or understanding that chips away at the poster’s credibility.
Also, this:
“ Think of it as diazepam on steroids.”
Ummmm no. What dumb comparison.
Midazolam is not like Valium on Steroids. Sheeeesh……..