I am an oral surgeon and routinely do IV anesthesia in my office. This means that I routinely straddle the line between conscious and unconscious, always ready to step in if we go over into unconscious. So, I am very well schooled in breathing and monitoring for breathing. It is Anesthesia 101 to know that the amount of weight on the che…
I am an oral surgeon and routinely do IV anesthesia in my office. This means that I routinely straddle the line between conscious and unconscious, always ready to step in if we go over into unconscious. So, I am very well schooled in breathing and monitoring for breathing. It is Anesthesia 101 to know that the amount of weight on the chest adversely affects breathing. We are literally taught on day 1 to sit the patient up if they are having trouble breathing solely to get the weight off their chest. We are taught on day 2 to be very reluctant to offer IV anesthesia, without putting a breathing tube in, to people who have a lot of upper body weight. This is because we KNOW that we will have difficulty keeping them breathing while lying them back to work on them specifically because of the excess weight on their chest.
It is not a huge stretch of the imagination to think that putting a full grown police officer, weighed down with all of his gear, on top of a chest would also lead to the person having trouble breathing. The fact that people who purportedly call themselves doctor suggest that the excess weight of a police officer laden down with equipment is not related to trouble breathing is offensive. Honestly, it would be laughable if people weren't dying.
Another thought to consider is how to safely provide anesthesia to a prone patient. There are times in the operating room that the surgeon needs to work on the back of a patient. This means the patient needs to be upside down (prone). Some of these surgeries are quick and some are very, very long. No matter how long the anticipated procedure is, however, the anesthesia team goes to incredible lengths to flip the patient (after the breathing tube is in!). The monitoring of these patients is extreme because this is long recognized as a dangerous position, especially in people not breathing as they would normally do. For the police to so casually flip people, especially those who may be on drugs (by definition have the potential to have altered breathing) and then hold them with weight on their chest is basically just asking to hurt or kill people.
I found this to be the most convincing and best written of this series. The way to combat misinformation (and outright lying) is with good information. This series proves that point.
I am an oral surgeon and routinely do IV anesthesia in my office. This means that I routinely straddle the line between conscious and unconscious, always ready to step in if we go over into unconscious. So, I am very well schooled in breathing and monitoring for breathing. It is Anesthesia 101 to know that the amount of weight on the chest adversely affects breathing. We are literally taught on day 1 to sit the patient up if they are having trouble breathing solely to get the weight off their chest. We are taught on day 2 to be very reluctant to offer IV anesthesia, without putting a breathing tube in, to people who have a lot of upper body weight. This is because we KNOW that we will have difficulty keeping them breathing while lying them back to work on them specifically because of the excess weight on their chest.
It is not a huge stretch of the imagination to think that putting a full grown police officer, weighed down with all of his gear, on top of a chest would also lead to the person having trouble breathing. The fact that people who purportedly call themselves doctor suggest that the excess weight of a police officer laden down with equipment is not related to trouble breathing is offensive. Honestly, it would be laughable if people weren't dying.
Another thought to consider is how to safely provide anesthesia to a prone patient. There are times in the operating room that the surgeon needs to work on the back of a patient. This means the patient needs to be upside down (prone). Some of these surgeries are quick and some are very, very long. No matter how long the anticipated procedure is, however, the anesthesia team goes to incredible lengths to flip the patient (after the breathing tube is in!). The monitoring of these patients is extreme because this is long recognized as a dangerous position, especially in people not breathing as they would normally do. For the police to so casually flip people, especially those who may be on drugs (by definition have the potential to have altered breathing) and then hold them with weight on their chest is basically just asking to hurt or kill people.
I found this to be the most convincing and best written of this series. The way to combat misinformation (and outright lying) is with good information. This series proves that point.