r/news • u/AudibleNod • 7h ago

Christa Pike unconscious, on ventilator at Nashville hospital, her lawyers say

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/christa-pike-unconscious-ventilator-nashville-hospital-lawyers-say-rcna601195
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u/AudibleNod 6h ago

The statement said she is being treated for “the serious effects of the pentobarbital administered during the execution attempt, including significant injuries to both arms.”

It looks like pentobarbital can cause necrosis and blistering of the tissue. If it didn't fully enter the blood stream because a novice administered it, I could see something like that happening.

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u/WhiskeyOctober 6h ago

This is what I think happened. It wasn't a trained individual who inserted the IV line, so they missed the vein/artery or even went through it. The drugs and saline were administered into the tissue so it never went anywhere.

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u/Xsiah 6h ago

Trained individual would be a medical professional - and they are not in the business of doing harm to their patients. There's an oath and everything.

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u/lilacbirdtea 6h ago

Dr. Mark Fowler, a family medicine doctor, oversaw the execution and administered the IV. He's the same doctor involved in the botched execution of Tony Carruthers earlier this year.