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Joan Rivers' Needless death
Submitted by drfriedberg on Wed, 2014-11-12 10:49
Re: propofol dose... Body weight is a standard 20th century method of 'guesstimating' propofol dose. Ultimately, it is still a guess.*
MEASURING the direct brain response with a brain monitor is the 21st century
approach.
Watch youtube 'Going under with Goldilocks anesthesia' to see how brain
monitoring eliminates too much or too little propofol given to achieve
numerically reproducible sedation levels.
Consider signing http://www.change.org/p/prospe...
*Read 'Getting Over Going Under, 5 things you MUST know before anesthesia'
Re: succinylcholine (Anectine)... Few dedicated anesthesia providers, much less most surgeons, know that intravenous lidocaine will work just as well to relax the vocal cords.
What is truly disgraceful, IF it can be established she was indeed present, was that a trained Ears, Nose & Throat (ENT) surgeon would not know this sort of life saving information.