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Ursprungligen postat av MacCaffrey
..eller pizzasmak om man väljer det.. får man av barbituraten Tiopenthal (pentothal), ett ohyggligt gammalt narkosmedel som fortfarande används mest frekvent på våra operationsavdelningar. Används även vid avrättningar.. samt var jag förstår även som sanningsserum, fast då i en annan variant.. natriumtiopentothal eller nåt sånt.
Propofol, det mjölkaktiga narkosmedlet som Jackson sög i sig.. ger ingen smaksensation, är också ett mindre potent läkemedel, men fungerar alldeles utmärkt som narkosmedel.
Ja, jag googlade och hittade info om att Tiopental ger vitlökssmak. Sökte även på Propofol men stod inget om vitlökssmak.
Ganska häftigt ändå att ha testat en gammal klassisk barbiturat. Men mindre häftigt att den används till att avrätta människor.
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Lethal injection
Along with pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride, thiopental is used in 34 states of the U.S. to execute prisoners by lethal injection. A very large dose is given which places the subject into a rapidly induced coma. Executions using the three drug combination are usually effective in approximately 10 minutes, but have been known to take several times this length. The use of thiopental alone is hypothesized to cause death in approximately 45 minutes.[9] The use of sodium thiopental has been the cause of current Supreme Court challenges to the lethal injection protocol, after a study in the medical journal The Lancet, where autopsy studies on executed inmates revealed that there was not a high enough concentration of thiopental in their blood to have caused unconsciousness. The exclusion of physicians participating in executions is partly to blame for inept administration of the drugs.[citation needed]
On December 8, 2009, the State of Ohio became the first to use a single dose of sodium thiopental for its capital execution, following the failed use of the standard three-drug cocktail during a recent execution due to inability to locate suitable veins. Kenneth Biros was executed using the single-drug method. The execution took 43 minutes and was concluded at 11:47am, including approximately 30 minutes to complete the process of inserting the needle, and about 10 minutes between administering the single dose and the pronouncement of death.
