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Michael Jackson was alive at UCLA, claims Conrad Murray
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[HMG] – With the wrongful death suit against Michael Jackson’s physician, Conrad Murray due to start soon the two sides are now using the media to plead their own sides.
Reports from TMZ say doctors at the UCLA Medical Center ran two EKG tests on the night of June 25 when Michael was rushed there, and found a faint heartbeat.
Meanwhile, Doctor Murray claims he restarted Jackson’s heart via CPR before the paramedics arrived, and even maintained it during the ambulance ride.
But despite vigorous efforts for over two hours, the singer was pronounced dead at 2.26pm local time.
An autopsy revealed the 50-year old singer’s body contained levels of Propofol beyond even those needed for major surgery. The LA County Coroner later concluded that Jackson’s death was due to “Acute Propofol intoxication.”
California’s Attorney General, Jerry Brown is now working to suspend Dr. Murray’s medical license, which will then be revoked if he’s found guilty.
And the Doctor’s problems are not over — Michael’s father, Joe Jackson is filing a ‘wrongful death’ lawsuit against him, alleging that he caused Michael’s death by delaying the 911 call
“The bottom line is, had paramedics been called right away he could have been revived,” says Joe’s attorney, Brian Oxman.
Mr. Oxman says records show Michael was, “long gone – 20 to 40 minutes before paramedics got there.”
A report due to be used in the trial claims Dr. Murray delayed the call, and even stopped resuscitation on his world-famous client so he could hide all the Propofol bottles.
Dr. Murray stands charged with ‘involuntary manslaughter,’ and is currently free on $75,000 bail. His next appearance in court is due on April 5th…
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And we are to believe TMZ 100% because……why?
It’s not a question of believing TMZ in this case, but a look at how Dr. Conrad’s legal team plans to defend their client. By having expert witnesses dispute and provide counter scenarios on when and where Michael Jackson, which is key to the prosecutions case. They merely need to create doubt among the jury to get Dr. Conrad off the hook, and they just might be able to do it.
I think alot will depend on the paramedic report and what they found on arrival. If the
initial heart tracing revealed a “flat line” and it remained that way despite resusitative
efforts, any heart activity obtained at the hospital would have been induced by
further resusitative efforts including medications. That does not transfer to any brain
activity. It will be difficult to exactly pinpoint when death occured but if he had no
heart activity and his pupils were fixed and dilated, he was gone before paramedics
arrived.
Of course the defense will try to create doubt about when Michael died. Let’s not
forget that Murray gave propofol in a totally inappropriate and dangerous manner.
That is the cause of death in this case.
Another lye of Murray. Murray claim the doctor said he was able to restart Jackson’s heart at the singer’s rented home before paramedics arrived and maintain it in the ambulance. Is not true. The doctors from UCLA claim the Michael has a faint pulse and his heart start beating for 10 minutes, only because paramedics administer to Michael Ephedrine and Atropine cardiac stimulants. I am a nurse here in Israel, and I know very well the effect of Atropine .The weak pulse found at UCLA Medical Center to a reaction from resuscitation results of Atropine. But the body did not sustained the heart. It is not unusual to regain some cardiac electrical activity during resuscitation. However, this does
not mean that the patient has any detectable brain activity or would ever regain it
Murray stopped CPR on him and delayed calling paramedics so he could collect drug vials at the scene.
Had he survived, Jackson would almost certainly have suffered severe brain damage, leaving him in worse shape than the zombies portrayed in his landmark video “Thriller.†He would have been among the living dead. The brain without support of Oxygen and blood ,begin to die. When the brain stops working, more than 5 minutes in nerve cells begin to die,
There is no escape from brain death
I think it’s interesting that we keep learning new things about Michael’s death almost a year later. I think there is a lot that we don’t know about this case and I’m curious to learn more. I wonder what Ian Halperin will have to say about all this in his new MJ documentary, “Gone Too Soon”. I’m sure we’ll be hearing more about that in the future.