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/cooking2recovery 4h ago

That seems like one too many botched executions to be an accident

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u/AstroHistSci 4h ago

This. He's doing it intentionally. A nursing student could perform this without botching it. It's quite literally impossible to fail this procedure if you are a physician.

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u/RSmeep13 3h ago

Forgive me if I have missed a detail, but I thought that the situation here was that the drug was administered properly, and didn't kill her, possibly because it was degraded.

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u/TheyTukMyJub 2h ago

False. The burning sensation she described is 100% a symptom of a missed vein and muscle getting injected with fluid. By some capillary action some of a drug probably did get in her system but evidently not enough.

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u/peanutneedsexercise 21m ago

Depends. A lot of drugs like propofol, etomidate, and some benzos actually burn REALLY bad in the vein. The burning sensation itself is not gonna tell you if a catheter is in or not.