This is an excellent post to those of us who have worked in ED or critical care.
This is an excellent find.
If Seth was fighting the vent enough to require fentanyl/propofol rather than just propofol, and was hemodynamically stable, then he had a chance for sure. My impression is that they drugged him with fentanyl in the bar.
We need to see the autopsy report, including toxicology People who have no medical knowledge are not really qualified to comment on this scenario.
Anyone who is naive enough to imagine that all medical personnel follow any tenet, including the first one, of the Hippocratic oath has been oblivious to what has happened in medicine for the past 50 years.
This resident clearly has a conscience, and made this public. Many thanks to that person!
If they drugged him with Fentanyl at the bar, he would have OD'ed at the bar, and it would have taken multiple hits of Narcan to bring him out of it. He would certainly not have left under his own power. Lethal doses of Fentanyl are measured in micrograms.
They could have drugged him with something like GHB, though.
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Laskar ago
This is an excellent post to those of us who have worked in ED or critical care.
This is an excellent find.
If Seth was fighting the vent enough to require fentanyl/propofol rather than just propofol, and was hemodynamically stable, then he had a chance for sure. My impression is that they drugged him with fentanyl in the bar.
We need to see the autopsy report, including toxicology People who have no medical knowledge are not really qualified to comment on this scenario.
Anyone who is naive enough to imagine that all medical personnel follow any tenet, including the first one, of the Hippocratic oath has been oblivious to what has happened in medicine for the past 50 years.
This resident clearly has a conscience, and made this public. Many thanks to that person!
This needs to be spread far and wide.
cthulian_axioms ago
If they drugged him with Fentanyl at the bar, he would have OD'ed at the bar, and it would have taken multiple hits of Narcan to bring him out of it. He would certainly not have left under his own power. Lethal doses of Fentanyl are measured in micrograms.
They could have drugged him with something like GHB, though.