Don't be upset with me! Blame the crna.

A lot of people are upset that I write about Versed/Midazolam.  They are upset that I slam crna's and anybody else who routinely damages patients brains with Versed.  They are upset that I reveal what "informed consent" has devolved into.  They are really upset that I have taken on the horrible effects of Versed on the human mind and the cavalier disregard our medical workers have for our cognitive function.  I have news for them...

The ONLY reason I am here typing away on my computer is because of a crna, his lack of concern for the LAWS pertaining to medical care and his absolute disdain for me as a person and ALL of his trusting patients as a group.  Think of it.

Had my crna LISTENED to me about not getting sedation or general anesthetic and the reasons why, I wouldn't be here.  I would never have known what Versed was.  Versed is such a tightly held secret, that many or most people who are kicked in the head with this poison DON'T EVEN KNOW they got it!  They don't know that the reason their memory is impaired or "foggy" is because of a sedation drug.  They don't know that the reason mom, dad, grandma or grampa ended up in a nursing home after surgery is because of a sedation drug.  Of course medical people will feign ignorance about the reason the loved one went senile suddenly.  They will never reveal that the drug they love to use, that makes people docile and amnestic, is the culprit.  My crna is responsible for me KNOWING AND CARING about this particular poison.  Without him defying my wishes, I wouldn't be here.

My crna was above following the law.  He knows and I know that he broke the law by treating me against my wishes.  It wasn't like I didn't discuss with him fully the parameters of my care.  I told him in no uncertain terms not to sedate me (actually I said NO DRUGS THAT WILL INCAPACITATE ME) and not to give me general anesthetic.  There was no UNLESS in my instructions.  I did NOT leave anything to his discretion.  It's the LAW that he respect this.  This man was so accustomed to breaking the law, that apparently he didn't give it a second thought.  I am thinking that nurses are trained to ignore patient wishes in favor of what they personally want to do.  That's NOT why we have patient rights laws and protections.  There would be no need for these LAWS if the medical workers were allowed to do whatever they want, now would there?  *I* knew that there were laws to protect me from overzealous medical workers!  I expected them to be followed.  I KNEW what an informed consent should look like and I never signed one.  Boy was I stupid.  So now I know that informed consent laws are violated with impunity.  How did I find this out?  Who is to blame for this?  The crna, that's who.

So we have a crna who breaks the law, a medical entity who has no fiduciary duty to make sure the law is followed, and an informed consent which has been turned into a hold-harmless document.  A vague consent which allows any kind of law breaking.  By signing todays "informed" consent what the patient is actually doing is giving away ALL OF THEIR RIGHTS!  Just take a look at what passes for INFORMED consent these days.  It's a joke.  There is no information there.  Just statements that say everything has been explained, not exactly WHAT was explained as required by law.  On my chart the crna wrote that everything had been explained AND ACCEPTED by the patient.  He lied.  My signature isn't on that document either.  But that's what he wrote.  So the crna is a LIAR!  The problem didn't start with ME, it started with a lying lawbreaking crna who used a control drug to have his way with me.

So if anybody is mad at ME, for revealing what happened to me in regards to Versed, maybe you should think about where this all started.  It started with an arrogant scoff law of a crna.  If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't know what Versed was.

Another Post From UK About Midazolam

Here's another post from the UK about using Versed to kill people.

Wednesday, 25 December 2013

Liverpool Care Pathway - The Execution Of Death

IVADS, including Midazolam, "significantly increased risk of death".






This is Family Practice News –

Although prospective, randomized controlled trials are needed to confirm the findings of this retrospective cohort study, the data should heighten awareness of the potential adverse effects of anesthetic drugs, Dr. Peter W. Kaplan said at the annual meeting of the American Epilepsy Society.

Of 171 adults who presented to University Hospital Basel, Switzerland, with status epilepticus between January 2005 and January 2011, 63 (37%) were treated with intravenous anesthetic drugs (IVADs), including thiopental, midazolam, propofol, and/or high-dose phenobarbital, and 18% of the patients died. After adjustment for status epilepticus duration and severity (based on status epilepticus severity score) and for critical medical conditions, those treated with IVADs had a significantly increased risk of death, compared with those who did not receive IVADs (relative risk = 3.16), said Dr. Kaplan of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

Furthermore, 

Those who received IVADs also had a significantly higher rate of infectious complications (43% vs. 11%). The infections were diagnosed during the course of treatment, and 25 of 27 infections were respiratory infections. The remaining two cases were urinary tract infections.

and

Severe hypotension also occurred more often in the patients who received IVADs.

A Pubmed submission confirms this last finding -

Abstract
A 72-year-old patient received 0.1 mg morphine by the intrathecal route and 2 x 1.5 mg midazolam as adjuvant therapy. Severe respiratory depression and somnolence supervened 3.5 h later, which lasted over the next 24 h and necessitated intubation and mechanical ventilation. Continuous administration of >6 mg naloxone to antagonize the supposed effect of the morphine had no effect. The patient's condition was not normalized until a single dose of 0.3 mg flumazenil was administered. For the time being, especially in the case of elderly patients, we recommend that strict indications are adhered to when intrathecal administration of morphine is considered and that less than 0.1 mg morphine is given. Diazepines should be avoided. Respiration should be monitored for quite some time.

This interaction between Morphine and Midazolam to compound their effects is also of note. This was not picked up on by Baker (Gosport Inquiry), was not considered by Ellershaw (LCP) and was not acknowledged by Neuberger (LCP Review). That is gross oversight and negligence.

Morphine depresses respiratory drive in any case.

Hence, use for symptom management for breathlessness? All nice and tidy and reassuring for the relatives at the bedside...

But fatal if you've been diagnosed as 'dying' and you're not actually dying.

Perception is everything. Those PROMs are all-important to tick the boxes.

There has been outcry in the US in regard to Midazolam being a 'cruel and unusual punishment' and this has been reported in these pages. This is a more recent report in the Guardian –

The European Commission imposed tough restrictions on the export of anaesthetics to US corrections departments in 2011, and amid the squeeze a succession of states has been running out of their primary lethal drugs supplies. As a result, Florida has turned to midazolam hydrochloride, a drug never before used in executions, provoking an outcry that it might be inflicting cruel and unusual punishment on condemned prisoners.

The EU Commission moratorium has so affected application of the ultimate sanction that Correction Boards are now resorting to other protocols including Midazolam to execute death.

Please! Mr. Ellershaw, a letter to the Florida Department of Corrections in regard to the safety and efficacy of Midazolam would, surely, not go amiss.

Further reading -

Liverpool Care Pathway - A "Cruel And Unusual Punishment"?

My DOCTOR Has Heard It!

I was speaking to my doctor a few days ago and he suggested a procedure "just to make sure".  Unfortunately this particular procedure generally involves generous amounts of "sedation" whether the patient needs it or not.  I flatly refused...it pays to do your homework.  I already figured he might want me to have that procedure and already knew it involved Versed/Midazolam.  No dice.

Of course he questioned me.  I think he was surprised at my refusal.  After all, he IS the doctor.  I'm PAYING him for his expertise and here I am saying an emphatic NO!  So I told him that Versed was used for that procedure and that Versed was NOT going to be used on me, never, ever, never, not under any circumstances!  I began to get nervous and jittery.  I don't want to be a "bad" patient, but I have zero intentions of putting myself "in that situation" (as one poster put it) where I might get Versed.  I have said I'd rather be dead than have Versed again and I thought that might be in the cards if I refused this procedure.  I didn't reveal that to the doctor however.  I just said NO!

The doc wanted to know what my problem was with Versed.  So I told him.  Here's where it gets almost unbelievable.  He said that he gets at least one patient per year that has the same reaction as *I* had.  (he's not a gastro, so his patients are more limited)  Amazing isn't it?  Crna's, ICU nurses and the like (the theme is nurses of any kind) will categorically DENY that there are any problems with the drug.  Oh HELL to the no, it cannot be Versed.  Versed is wonderful and safe.  NOBODY ever, Ever, EVER has a bad reaction to Versed.  It must be ME!  Yeah, well, OK, but my DOCTOR says otherwise and so do many of his patients.  The biggest difference is that my educated specialist of a doctor believes his patients.  Fancy that!

My doctor went on to explain (in an incredulous tone) that when these anesthesia/sedation people get patients like me, they give them MORE Versed!  Right from a doctors mouth.  If the patient has a paradoxical or other bad reaction to Versed they give you MORE of it.  Sure, that makes sense to me.  NOT!  On the surface it makes no sense...but in reality, given the nature and mental processes of these anesthetists, crna's or whatever, this does make sense.  If you are willfully blind to the effects of your favorite drug.  If you refuse to believe what the stupid patients are telling you.  If you do NOT read any scientific studies which show the devastating effects of Versed on people, then sure, let's give the patient MORE of what caused the problem in the first place.  How ignorant is that?

Although I will not be having the procedure that my doc wanted, we came up with an alternate plan, and will avoid the whole Versed issue for now.  He stated that he will personally ensure that I don't have Versed, even if it turns out that I really do need that procedure.  My highly educated DOCTOR will make sure the anesthesia person doesn't give me Versed.  I'm thinking that my doc doesn't need me struggling in restraints during the procedure. (he doesn't know that I was trying to kill people last time, the only time, I got Versed)  He also caught a glimpse of the emotional toll Versed took on me.  We haven't talked about the other NO I have in mind.  That being that a crna is a big NO, nein, nyet!  I want one of my doctor's peers, not an underling.  He/she still can't use Versed on me, but at least an anesthesiologist can do their job without it.

Isn't This Perfect? NOT!

I came across this article in my search.  Click here: Does It Save Money Not to Have Anesthesia During a Colonoscopy? | Finance - Zacks

You won't believe this, but the anesthetists may be able to charge you for NOT doing any anesthesia.  When will this end?  There are some other alarming statements in the article as well.  Stuff like the gastro's deciding that you can't have a colonoscopy without sedation.  Oh really...  Go read about it.  UN FRICKIN' BELIEVABLE!

Here's Another Article

This one is a lawyer blog which discusses "anesthesia" primarily in sedation dentistry.  My readers already know about the deaths in dentist offices...

 Click here: Anesthesia Complications In Routine Surgery | Litigation & Trial Lawyer Blog

Reno Man Kills Doctor Over Botched Surgery

There are some articles online about a Reno man who walked into a doctors office and started shooting.  He claims his surgery was botched.  Some articles reference his "vasectomy" as a problem.  Well, I'd sure like to see his "informed consent" for the surgery!  Did it detail all of the problems with the surgery?  Lots of men experience pain and some other very serious side effects from this surgery, like CANCER, ALLERGIES TO HIS OWN SPERM, A SPECIFIC MENTAL DISORDER.  Look it up!  You may have to look hard to find the real side effects from vasectomies.

Anyway, I also wonder if this man also got some Versed?  If he got PTSD from his Versed injection and then went on to experience some other severe side effects from the surgery itself, I can see him going postal. The guy lasted 3 years or so before he went berserk...more than enough time to come to the conclusion that he had been duped, drugged and damaged by the medical profession.

It all comes down to INFORMED consent.  That and banning Versed.

Victim Thoughts On Being Raped With Versed

I found this while researching what ever happened to Kevin Cobb, the nurse convicted of raping many women and killing one woman by using Versed.  Here is what a couple of the victims say about what they felt while under the influence of Versed while this guy raped them.  Sounds like they were really relaxed and perfectly fine with being raped doesn't it?  NOT!  Yet patients are subjected to what amounts to rape, even if it isn't sexual rape, by medical people every day.  This is what this medical wonder drug does to people.
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I FEARED NURSE WHO RAPED ME WAS FATHER OF MY CHILD; Fiend stole 40 minutes of my life ...he could easily have ended it. - Free Online Library

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