Re: Mussels

Goomba38 wrote:

I chemically paralyze patients all the time yet I would never mistake
them for being dead? (well, 'cept for the ones who actually are brain
dead, but that's another issue...) And yes, paralytics are not sedatives
in any way, shape or form so patients can be perfectly alert if not
*also* sedated. Isn't that a terrorizing thought? And ALL chemically
paralyzed patients *require* respiratory support. Yet the heart isn't
paralyzed so an emergency team shouldn't have missed that pulse?

I'm curious about this story or report you read. Do you have a citation?

I'm sure I have a copy of the original report,
but it's in a box which although it's about 20
feet from me now, it's behind and under a whole
bunch of other stuff. Perhaps this summer I'll
get to that layer, then again perhaps not. :-)

If I recall correctly, the EMT crew did not see
a response by the iris to light, and decided the
guy was dead based on that.
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