No matter what the intention the dosage of Pavulon was too high, and it was concealed. IT was a Paralyzing drug in an overdose amount no matter what...no matter what they chose not to disclose this error or correct it and they chose not to disclose that she was given a paralytic drug to begin with. No matter what the bottom line is the bottom line. Rantings aside....what happened was wrong.

Emergency Rooms still full

What concerns me when I close my eyes at night is a picture I cannot shake. Its an Emergency Room. In the Emergency Room I see my mother sick, dryed out standing glossy eyed with at least a thousand other patients...My mother may be gone but even now the Emergency Rooms and Doctors Offices are jam packed with Patients who think Doctors have all the answers. Patients who rush to the Emergency Rooms with Mounds of emotional pain that they keep trying to treat physically. I mean isn't that really the bottom line anyway for my mother and Michael Jackson?? Their emotional pain that never got treated that they never got relief from? A doctor should be able to discern the difference. He should be able to take enough time with his clients to be able to see what really needs to be treated. Lets face it they don't have all the answers or even half the answers. Most of the time you can only get a clear diagnosis if they get lucky or if you walk in with your severed limb in your hands. What makes me sick is how doctors have become predators pushing their meds. I take meds. I have issues with my health I am in no way saying do not see a doctor or see a good one...I am saying be involved in your healthcare. Know what you are taking and check on loved ones you suspect have gotten dragged in...Kennewick General is one hospital you dont want to be at ...in it you are no longer human no longer have rights...and obviously they don't handle health care straight up find out the ones in your area that do. How many people are going to die this year? How many people will die while a doctor hides behind their corpse? How many hospitals will look the other way when they know they are wrong because paying a dollar and admitting a mistake is far more important to them than the loss and dignity of anothers life?? How long will we tolerate physicians who work for us and get paid by us "PLAYING DOCTOR" when we will change and expect better for ourselves People are going to die this year at the hands of a doctor or hospital maybe both...I'll say it again they are packed with people wanting relief from physical pain who end up dead. Glossy eyed walking dead people not understanding the thing they are going to lose is their life...that what they are forfeiting in and effort to feel better is their health. Pills have consequences. Blind trust in a doctor who has not earned it is stupidity. We should have a national roster set up for Doctors to have their mugs posted on to warn future patients we should be able to see in a ten year time period just how many of their patients died what drugs were used, how their ailments were treated...as a consumer just like reading the label on a jar of peanut butter all the ingredients should be posted. We have the right to know.

ITS TIME TO SAY 'ENOUGH'

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Euthinized

Euthanasia protocol
See also: Lethal injection#Euthanasia protocol

A euthanasia device invented by Dr Philip Nitschke that facilitated euthanasia through heavy doses of drugs. The laptop screen led the user through a series of steps and questions to ensure he or she was fully prepared. The machine in a museum.
Euthanasia can be accomplished either through an oral, intravenous, or intramuscular administration of drugs, or by oxygen deprivation (anoxia), as in some euthanasia machines. In individuals who are incapable of swallowing lethal doses of medication, an intravenous route is preferred. The following is a Dutch protocol for parenteral (intravenous) administration to obtain euthanasia:
Intravenous administration is the most reliable and rapid way to accomplish euthanasia. A coma is first induced by intravenous administration of 20 mg/kg sodium thiopental (Nesdonal) in a small volume (10 ml physiological saline). Then a triple intravenous dose of a non-depolarizing neuromuscular muscle relaxant is given, such as 20 mg pancuronium bromide (Pavulon) or 20 mg vecuronium bromide (Norcuron). The muscle relaxant should preferably be given intravenously, in order to ensure optimal availability. Only for pancuronium bromide (Pavulon) are there substantial indications that the agent may also be given intramuscularly in a dosage of 40 mg.[58]
With regards to nonvoluntary euthanasia, the cases where the person could consent but was not asked are often viewed differently from those where the person could not consent. Some people raise issues regarding stereotypes of disability that can lead to non-disabled or less disabled people overestimating the person's suffering, or assuming it to be unchangeable when it could be changed. For example, many disability rights advocates responded to Tracy Latimer's murder by pointing out that her parents had refused a hip surgery that could have greatly reduced or eliminated the physical pain Tracy experienced. Also, they point out that a severely disabled person need not be in emotional pain at their situation, and claim that the emotional pain, if present, is due to societal prejudice rather than the disability, analogous to a person of a particular ethnicity wanting to die because they have internalized negative stereotypes about their ethnic background. Another example of this is Keith McCormick, a New Zealander Paralympian who was "mercy-killed" by his caregiver, and Matthew Sutton.[59][60]
With regards to voluntary euthanasia, many people argue that 'equal access' should apply to access to suicide as well, so therefore disabled people who cannot kill themselves should have access to voluntary euthanasia.

SHE SAID 'NO' HER RIGHTS WERE VIOLATED AND SHE DIED PEACEFULLY AND WAS REVIVED BY DR JAMES NEWMAN TO DIE VIOLENTLY...KENNEWICK GENERAL HOSPITAL VIOLATED THIS WOMANS RIGHT TO CHOOSE HER TREATMENT THEY VIOLATED HER RIGHT TO DIE WITH DIGNITY, AND THEN THEY BILLED MEDICARE FOR THE TREATMENT SHE REFUSED...YOUR TAX DOLLARS ARE USED TO ABUSE AND RIP OFF THE ELDERLY

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I just wrote President elect Obama with my story and my mothers story. You can contact him at the link below with your story, just click on the link and add your story. I am excited about the changes he is wanting to make in the healthcare system...click on the link and listen to his weekly address.


I so agree with the changes here is Mr.President I agree with you about changes in the healthcare system. I watched for the first time this morning your address and got so excited to see the direction you are going. The healthcare system depsperatley needs to be computerized. My mother died on May 9th 2008 two days before mothers day. She had died peacefully in dialysis, but there was a question about the DNR. The staff did not know whether or not to follow the 2006 polst form or 2007 DNR. SHe was revived. Taken to Kennewick General Hospital in Kennewick Wa the doctor, James Newman ignored my sister telling him about the DNR ignored my mothers doctor Dr Ang who he called, apparently never opened her chart since the DNR was signed at their hospital in Nov 2007. When she started to move and cough (according to her charts)the doctor gave her a paralytic drug, like the one they give death row inmates. No pain killer , no sedative. He just paralyzed her to cover his mistake. Then he did not disclose it to the family we found out later from the charts, my sister had picked them up before they could be altered. They have the drug Pavulon listed as a sedative when it is a pralyzing drug. A person can be coherant, unable to breathe, cough, blink, express pain...then 10 hours later they told us after they had overdosed her on this drug that they had to honor her wishes in the DNR and unplug her. My mother was tortured, battered, and abused for ten hours prior to being allowed to die.HOW YOU DIE MATTERS!!!!! If the charts were electronically sent immediatly to DOH it would make chart altering impossible. And if the laws were changed to where reviving a DNR was considered Murder, BECAUSE YOU ARE NO LONGER UNPLUGGING A DEAD PATIENT BUT A LIVE ONE, doctors and staff would take the time to read the charts of their patients. And billing Medicare for services patients have taken the time to say no to in advance would be impossible. We pay billions every year. When I contacted rep. Herreras office I was told a DNR isn't worth the paper it's written on. That needs to change. We pay in to Medicare and medicaid and take part in the abuse of the elderly and the rape of medicare. Hospitals do not get paid for dead people, and dead people can't talk. No one should have to die like my mother did. She was poor, living in public housing, she had copd, diabetes, kidney failure, had a heart attack in nov 2007 that left her with about 40 percent of her heart working...she should never have been revived to begin with it was medically futile. My mother hated pain, and I loved her deeply...she was robbed of her peaceful natural death, to be revived to be tortured, it has to stop. When I contacted the DOH they said they know the records get changed and the staff gets briefed to cover things up, but they can't catch them. Tax payers are paying to take part in Medicare Fraud. It has to be fraud if a patient says NO> I have a blog at www.yourrighttosayno.blogspot.com/ with my mothers story. Everyone matters, no one should have to die like that. Electronic charting would create greater accountability for doctors and less errors medically. It breaks my heart how my mother died. She had her No and her voice stripped away...when she was moving was she trying to say no, or stop? It just crushes me, my heart for her and her death was peace. In long term illness you feel so helpless anyway, as a family we just wanted a peaceful transition to joining Jesus. And doctors like James Newman, or Kennewick General appear to have more power than family, they came in and did what they wanted to do with my mother. They didn't even follow her polst form because it calls for pain medication and treatment, they never offered her anything, they slapped her on a ventilator...then doctor Newman gave her an overdose of Pavulon in her system it would not have left her body without dialysis, and it would have accumulated causing an overdose. They told us she was brain damaged from lack of oxygen from a heart attack...not that she was displaying overdose symptoms. THE POWER SHOULD NEVER BE TAKEN AWAY FROM THE PATIENT. Every person should count, every voice, every NO UP UNTIL SHE DREW HER LAST BREATH SHE WAS A HUMAN LIVING BEING THAT DESERVED COURTESY AND RESPECT. She was poor and on Medicare she should have recieved the same treatment as anyone else. Her life mattered, and her life counted. It is a tragedy in America that elderly are so mistreated. That the dying are so mistreated and that the medical field is so corrupt. If it doesn't change on the inside of the system starting with the doctors, nurses, and hospitals, no amount of revamping the system is going to make a difference. Doctors should not get paid for patients that have a DNR anywhere on file. That should be against the law, there are too many loopholes. That DO NOT RESUSCITATE ORDER SHOULD PROTECT PATIENT RIGHTS NOT THE DOCTORS RIGHTS...IT SHOULD BE MORE VALUABLE THAN THE PAPER IT IS WRITTEN ON...A HUMAN LIFE SHOULD BE MORE VALUABLE

SHE NEVER CONSENTED TO BE PARALYZED

I AWOKE THIS MORNING JUST HAVING IT ECHO IN MY HEAD THAT MY MOTHER NEVER WOULD HAVE WANTED THIS. SHE NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS WOULD HAVE CONSENTED TO A PARALYTIC DRUG, NEVER EVER IN A MILLION YEARS WITHOUT PAIN MEDICATION...AND SHE WOULD NEVER HAVE IN A HUNDRED BILLION YEARS CONSENTED TO THE AMOUNT SHE WAS GIVEN.

MY MOTHER WOULD HAVE VIEWED BEING GIVEN A PARALYTIC DRUG AS TORTURE. SHE WOULD HAVE SAID THE AMOUNT WAS TOO DANGEROUS FOR HER SICK BODY. SHE WAS NEVER GIVEN THE CHOICE.

WHEN MY FATHER WAS TAKEN OFF LIFE SUPPORT UP AT OHSU TWO YEARS EARLIER MY FATHERS WIFE, (I CALL HER MOM) WAS TELLING ME THAT THE DOCTORS UP AT OHSU WERE CONSTANTLY ASKING HER WHAT MY FATHER WOULD HAVE WANTED. EVEN RIGHT BEFORE HE WAS UNPLUGGED THEY ASKED AGAIN AND AGAIN IF SHE WAS SURE THAT THIS WAS WHAT HE WOULD HAVE WANTED.

NO ONE AT KENNEWICK GENERAL HOSPITAL CARED WHAT MY MOTHER WOULD HAVE WANTED. NO ONE AT KENNEWICK GENERAL HOSPITAL ASKED ANY ONE OF US WHAT SHE WOULD HAVE WANTED. FIRST THEY REVIVED HER IN SPITE OF A CURRENT DNR AS DR NIENDORF DOCUMENTS IN HIS CHARTING...THEN THEY PARALYZE HER AGAINST HER WISHES,( MY DADS WIFE WAS TELLING ME MY FATHER UP AT OHSU HAD A DOCTOR WHOSE SOLE JOB WAS KEEPING DAD COMFORTABLE THROUGHOUT HIS PROCESS WHETHER SHE LIKED IT OR ANYONE ELSE LIKED IT OR NOT)...THEN THEY GAVE HER AN OVERDOSE OF A DRUG THAT ONLY PARALYZES. NO PAIN KILLERS, NO SEDATIVE, NO RESPECT.

IT IS MY FIRM BELIEF THAT MY MOTHER WAS FORCED TO ENDURE EVERYTHING ON MAY 9TH 2008 THAT WAS COMPLETELY AGAINST HER WISHES.

Comet my sons hamster died last night. It was very sad. This was a champion hamster in the hamster derby... we all loved ham-ham. Towards the end of his life I felt very strongly that I was supposed to go and hold him. His little body was so cold and he was struggling to breathe...maybe it brought back for me the images I can't ever erase of my mother struggling to breathe at the end of her life, I thought I would hold him close to my heart and just warm him up, and help him not to be alone. He was so sweet, just the most precious baby...I held him close until he curled into his little familiar ball and drew his last breath and his body was released. I told him, "No more bars now Comet, Your'e free". Every death is like that , death brings freedom and release. I rememer when I realized how close Comet was to death and that he would not be walking around his cage anymore and I literally removed the bars of his cage as a visual reminder of the freedom he was gaining. It's difficult to view death as freedom.

Death is difficult for the ones left behind. We feel the vacant hole in our heart that the other person (or in this case hamster) held. Even something so small and insignificant as a hamster leaves a unique imprint on your heart that even death cannot remove.

In my journey of hamster hospice, I have walked alongside three hamsters now as they have made the final transition in their lives. I can honestly say I agonized over each one personally. I think if one small hamster is so unique how much more so is a human. No one person is totally forgotten. We are all intricately weaved into this giant tapestry and even one broken thread affects all the others. No one is insignificant ever. We all count. Even my mother. In her brokeness and imperfections she still counted and leaves an irreplaceable void. She had so many days of being difficult and hard to deal with as she processed grief. But that's not what I remember today. Today I remember when she was heavy and hated herself How much I loved hugging her arms. I loved her arms! Or I remember being little and thinking she was the most beautiful woman in the world...I only ever wish she could have for five seconds seen herself through my eyes. Because I loved her not based on what she did, but who she was. My mother. My only mother I will every have! I always only ever wanted the best for her. IT's hard to embrace a sad Christmas. Like you would embrace a great festive one. And even harder to not call the season bad because it doesn't feel good. It feels sad. It's easy to be grateful when everything is good.

Thank God for God. TO anyone with a heart my mother mattered. She wasn't mentally ill she was emotionally ill. But to anyone who believes every life counts she matters. Her life mattered. Her spot not forgotten. Her life touched my heart.

COmets life touched my heart. You do not forget what you have invested your heart into loving. Love does not require perfection in order for love to exist. It reminds me of one of my dogs Schotzi her hair was falling out , she smelled horrid, and she bit ankles...Noah still misses that dog. He loved her and she bit his ankles the most out of everyone in our family. It's easy to love those things that are easy for us. A little more challenging for the "ankle biters"...and yet that is what we are called to do ...to love.
Its a matter of the heart. Dealing with the people at the hospital has been hard for me because the heart isn't involved on their side. My mothers life is calculated in importance according to dollars. Kennewick General Hospital wants to maintain their innocence and focus on the almighty safe keeping and gaurding of the buck, in the process exchanging protecting their patients for money and a fake reputation. Their hearts are in the wrong place. They protect their right to do whats wrong. Their reputations are built on lies and cover ups. And the preservation of their image. (one that isn't even good to begin with by the way) And don't forget DENIAL. Even when they are wrong they don't stand up and accept responsibility. Hospitals like this inevitably damage not just the person they treat medically and have wronged...in their behavior on May 9th 2008 by covering their mishap and permanently silencing my mother, they damaged three other people. My brother, sister and myself and all of the grandchildren my mother left behind as well as our spouses. Not to mention countless other staff members who were "briefed" on what to say and how to say it in order to keep their jobs.

Hospitals now maim and wound much more often than they heal. Merry Christmas? Yet how can they fully enjoy their christmas? It robs every area of their lives, their eyes are just closed to it. The doctors, the damage control specialists, the records alterers...
Integrity, honor and honesty do not exist. Pray for them this holiday season. To me its no different than being a whore. When you will do anything for money and disregard honesty and honor and integrity to get it you have become a whore. A whore to the dollar bill and a slave to the system. You live in bars much more confining than poor Comet. I personally would lose my job long before I would agree to take part in a job that covers the truth.
It's wrong, they have become numb in the spirit. Where is the joy in stuff at Christmas? Vacationing in the Bahamas, driving a BMW where is the joy when the cost to your heart is so huge?

I'll say it again the healthcare system needs reform but it needs to start at the ground level...with the doctors and the hospitals....No amount of revamping the system will every matter unless honesty and trust and truth are put back into an area where it has long been forgotten...

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According to Medic8 Drug information: Pavulon also known as Pancuronium causes a 95% muscle relaxant. It diminishes the activity of the vagoytic nerve. (in the medical dictionary teh vagus nerve is a cranial (head) nerve that is connected to the brain. The vagus nerve has branches to most of the major organs in the body including the larynx, throat, windpipe, lungs, heart and most of the digestive system)Usual dosage for intubation and surgery is about 0.1mg, my mother was given 2mg not once but twice in less than a ten minute time frame. She arrived at the hospital at 9:30 according to chart notes but Pavulon in megadose was administered a ONE HOUR AND EIGHTEEN MINUTES LATER AND AGAIN SEVEN MINUTES LATER. SIDE EFFECTS ARE MODERATLEY RAISED HEART RATE,AND THEREBY ARTERIAL PRESSURE AND CARDIAC OUTPUT, EXCESSIVE SALAVATION ( I WAS CONSTANTLY WIPING THE SALIVA OFF MY MOTHER WHILE I WAS THERE) APNOEA AND RESPIRATORY DEPRESSION, RASHES, FLUSHING AND SWEATING. THE MUSCULAR RELAXATION CANBE DANGEROUS IN THE SERIOUSLY ILL AND IT CAN ACCUMULATE LEADING TO EXTENDED WEAKNESS." According to http://www.drugs.com/ppa/panacuronium-bromide.html it states that you have to "ensure that patient has adequate anesthesia or sedation BEFORE ADMINISTERING PANCUONUIM BECAUSE THE DRUG HAS NO KNOWN EFFECT ON CONSCIOUSNESS, PAIN THRESHOLD, OR CEREBRATION. For those of you not familiar with medical terminology it means the drug is not a pain med, the person can feel it all and be unable to express what they are feeling, they can't even blink their eyes. According to this information it is renally excreted. and may require LOWER doses or less frequent maintenance doses. and causes REPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY AND APNEA. That means unable to breathe on their own. It also specifically states that they are to ADVISE PATIENT, FAMILY OR CAREGIVER THAT MEDICATION WILL BE PREPARED AND ADMINISTERED BY HEALTH CARE PROVIDER IN A HEALTH SETTING...AND TO REASSURE PATIENT AND FAMILY AND CAREGIVER THAT BREATHING WILL BE CLOSELY MONITORED AND SUPPORTED WHILE MEDICATION IS ADMINISTERED AND THAT BREATHING AND MUSCLE FUNCTION WILL RETURN TO NORMAL AFTER MEDICATION IS DISCONTINUED." Need I say more? Why the excessive dose? Why the witholding of information? This is a major breech of trust concerning the care given at Kennewick General Hospital...not to mention what my mother suffered physically during the time of 10:43 until she expired un-naturally heavily Paralized and finally allowed pain relief only for death.

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