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.