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Amiodarone, lidocaine, or placebo in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. N Engl J Med. Adult advanced life support. In addition, in the case of cardiac arrest, since the patient is already under continuous external cardiac chest compressions, no supplementary deleterious consequences related to this transient hyperkalemia are expected.
Direct intravenous injection of potassium chloride into a patient in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with refractory ventricular fibrillation with 3 external electric shocks, instead of amiodarone, should interrupt this ventricular fibrillation and then allow a rapid return to an organized heart rhythm, and thus restore effective spontaneous cardiac activity.
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Detailed Description:. FDA Resources. Arms and Interventions. Direct intravenous injection IVD 20 mmol potassium chloride. Who knew what the future was going to bring? See also Affidavit of Dr. Kevin Concannan, D. Beck, et al. Dunn, Jr. Also, Human Rights Watch telephone interview with a physician who consulted with the state legislator and served on the state medical ethics board and asked to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of the issue in Oregon , Portland, Oregon, March 6, Baselt, Ph.
Dershwitz: Well yes. For instance, if the pancuronium was the first drug given and the person were conscious when experiencing paralysis, they would have no motor or mechanical way of communicating their displeasure. Because of the routine use of neuromuscular blocking agents also called paralytics during general anesthesia, the patient is often unable to communicate with the surgical team if this occurs. Cain , Case No. Laws Bredesen, at al. The State failed to demonstrate any need whatsoever for the injection of Pavulon.
Nonetheless, the court found against the condemned inmate, citing a lack of any visible evidence that any Tennessee inmates had ever been conscious during their executions.
This is exactly the kind of proof that the use of Pavulon would mask. Mark Heath in , in a series of speeches he gave around the United States. Human Rights Watch telephone interview with Dr. Heath is a leading researcher on how lethal injections are administered in the United States. Heath also serves as an expert witness on behalf of prisoners challenging state lethal injection protocols in court.
See also, Anderson et al v. Evans et.
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