I have to tell you, as an EMT, that the contents of the prescriptions would be in the EMT report. The family should somehow get the EMT report, from the hospital.
As I was reading the hospital discharge, I noticed that when Terri was taken to the hospital, her glocose was 373 and potassium was 2.
I wonder -- is there an illness, or medication, that could cause that? Could Michale have injected her with insulin, to cause a coma, but that wouldn't take her potassium down, would it?
How could her glucose be 373 at 6 am, when she presumably ate several hours before that. If she had been diabetic, it would have become clear after she was in the hospital, that she needed medication or insulin to keep her blood sugar down, but once it went down in the hospital it was never an issue.
Please see my earlier post to you about Terri's high glucose.
Here is the link to the hospital discharge papers, which addresses some of the initial findings, when Terri was brought in:
http://www.zimp.org/stuff/Discharge%20Summary%20050990.pdf
"LABORATORY DATA: Initial laboratory data revealed CRC with WBC of 26.3 and a left shift. Sodium was 138, potassium 2.0, chloride 37, bicarb 15, glucose 373, BUN 2' and creatininn 1.1. Pregnancy test was negative. Urine drug screen was negative. Blood for alcohol was also negative. Initial arterial blood gases showed PH 7.25, PC02 34, P02 477 on 100 percent ambu bag. Chest r-ray was negative. EKG showed sinus tachycardia and non-specific ST-T changes. CAT scan of the brain that was done was negative for any acute evert.
Serial EKG's in the first few days did not show any evidence of myocaraial infarction."
See link in my post 775 in this thread for link to the full hospital discharge report.
It shows very high glucose, low potassium, and high white blood count, indicating infection.
But what does the combination of high glucose and low potassium mean?