Jackson asked for powerful sedative, nurse says
More questions about Michael Jackson’s medications arose Tuesday when a nurse came forward to say that Jackson had asked her in April for a power sedative.
Cherilyn Lee, a registered nurse who operates a Los Angeles-based nutritional counseling business, told CNN that Jackson was complaining of insomnia and pleaded for her to get him some Diprivan (propofol), a drug usually used to start or maintain anesthesia during surgeries.
Lee said she told Jackson “the medication is not safe.”
Four days before Jackson’s death, Lee said, a Jackson staffer called and said the pop star was complaining that one side of his body was hot and the other side was cold .
“You need to go to hospital,” she told the staffer, with Jackson apparently in earshot.
An injection of Diprivan can induce hypnosis within 40 seconds from the start of injection, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The drug’s product label says that propofol should only be administered by people “trained in the administration of general anesthesia.” Sedated patients should be continuously monitored, the product label says, and equipment to provide artificial ventilation, administration of oxygen and instituting CPR “must be immediately available.”
The product label warns that use of propofol for sedating adult and pediatric intensive care unit patients has been associated with organ system failures that have resulted in death.
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Diprivan sounds like it "did Michael in".
Such a waste.
And so much pressure on Michael to "regain his former status" and thereby, economic earning power.
Isolated and alone. Where was Janet ?
Where was anybody he could truly trust ?
Posted by: Peter | June 30, 2009 at 08:04 PM
wow,
Posted by: mma rankings | June 30, 2009 at 08:35 PM
If he took this stuff he was trying to commit suicide. A peaceful way to die -- you drift off to sleep, your respiratory system stops, then your heart stops. Simple, easy, painless. And he was worth more dead than alive. It's a suicide.
Posted by: Macko | June 30, 2009 at 09:44 PM
why jackson give his doctor a salary ,if he cannot take care of him
and save him ? where was his familly when everything happen ?
Posted by: balla | July 01, 2009 at 08:52 PM