"Mark Thorson" > wrote in message
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> 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.


I remember the news stories being pretty spooky, especially since they said
some people didn't understand that cooking would not destroy the toxins in
some cases.