Soundmind
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Hi everybody,
Soundmind or Elusive , I'm sorry to so thick, I'm still a bit confused about why you think self injection is clearly impossible.
My understanding was :
The tube in his leg connected to the syringe was too short, so difficult to reach + propofol would have knocked him out too fast for MJ to inject himself with the dose that was found.
Is this correct ??
I was confused by Soundmind post saying that with a 10cc syringe, it showed that the dose in itself was not lethal (that's what the coroners report says) , what was lethal was it was injected too fast.
thanks
Could the decedent have given propofol to him? It is unknown where the propofol physically came from. It would have been difficult for the patient to administer the drugs (others besides propofol were administered) to himself, given the configuration of the IV set-up. The IV catheter was in the left leg. The injection port of the IV tubing was 13.5 cm from the tip in the catheter. He would have had to bend his knee sharply or sit up to reach the injection port and push the syringe barrel, an awkward situation, especially if sleep was the goal. If only bolus injections via a syringe were used, sleep would not have been maintained, due to the short action of propofol. Someone with medical knowledge or experience would have started the IV. Anyone could have drawn up and administered the medications after the IV was started.
That's the expert opinion, all the medications were difficult to administer not only propofol. Bolus injections MJ would not have been able to do it, IV drip anyone including Mike.
That's why for months we were saying the coroner ruled out any possibility of propofol being given as an IV drip inorder for them to say it was a homicide.
as for the 10cc syringe, the toxicology report was published, propofol concentrations in the urine were known. Very small amount given, nothing exceeding 200 mg , probably a 10cc syringe in the hours preceding death.
If that was the pattern then MJ's death was caused by another injection with a similar 10cc syringe , documented evidence of other cases where death occurred due to normal but rapid dose.
The coroner never said it was an overdose, the coroner said it was similar to concentrations under general anaesthesia which was very true. Blood concentrations under general anesthesia are between 2.4 - 8 ug/ml. MJ's was 4.1 ug/ml. If it was given via a bolus injection , it means he died within one minute.