diprivan overdose

What is Diprivan?

2009-06-30T21:20:00.002-07:00

Diprivan is used to start or maintain anesthesia during certain surgeries, tests, or procedures. It may also be used for other conditions as determined by your doctor.

Diprivan is a general anesthetic. It is unknown exactly how this medication works.

Did Diprivan Do Michael Jackson In?

2009-06-30T21:20:00.001-07:00

Michael Jackson’s nutritionist is now coming out and saying that the King of Pop desperately sought a sedative called Diprivan.

Nurse/Nutritionist Cherilyn Lee has had the fortune of treating Michael Jackson as a patient tells the media that during the final days Whacko Jacko was adamant about receiving a powerful intravenous sedative called Diprivan or Propofol.

But not only this, the story gets even more interesting here. Just three or four days before Michael Jackson passed away, one of Michael Jackson’s assistant placed a desperate call to Lee, telling the nurse that Jackson was extremely ill.

‘One side of my body is hot, it’s hot, and one side of my body is cold,’ ” Lee overheard Jackson saying in the background.

An O.D of the sedative like Diprivan can force a person to stop breathing, which can lead up to the deadly buildup of carbon dioxide in the body. This build of CO2 can lead to erratic heartbeat and cardiac arrest.

Michael Jackson did not go to the hospital on June 21st when Lee was called, however he was rushed to UCLA Medical Center on June 25th after falling unconscious in his Los Angeles home and not responding to CPR.

By now you all now what happened on that fateful day. More to come in the following days and I can bet this story is here to stay for some more days.

Jackson asked for powerful sedative, nurse says

2009-06-30T21:18:00.000-07:00

More questions about Michael Jackson’s medications arose Tuesday when a nurse came forward to say that Jackson had asked her in April for a power sedative.

Cherilyn Lee, a registered nurse who operates a Los Angeles-based nutritional counseling business, told CNN that Jackson was complaining of insomnia and pleaded for her to get him some Diprivan (propofol), a drug usually used to start or maintain anesthesia during surgeries.

Lee said she told Jackson “the medication is not safe.”

Four days before Jackson’s death, Lee said, a Jackson staffer called and said the pop star was complaining that one side of his body was hot and the other side was cold .

“You need to go to hospital,” she told the staffer, with Jackson apparently in earshot.

An injection of Diprivan can induce hypnosis within 40 seconds from the start of injection, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

The drug’s product label says that propofol should only be administered by people “trained in the administration of general anesthesia.” Sedated patients should be continuously monitored, the product label says, and equipment to provide artificial ventilation, administration of oxygen and instituting CPR “must be immediately available.”

The product label warns that use of propofol for sedating adult and pediatric intensive care unit patients has been associated with organ system failures that have resulted in death.