It's actually the potassium and not the chlorine.
Normal blood has about 140 meq of Na and 4 meq (milliequivalents) of K per
liter if I remember correctly. Deviations in the K level either up or down
can be bad.
Too much tends to make the heart fire erratically and . . .
I would guess any soluble potassium salt (although the chlorides are common
blood components)could be used.
KCl appears to be the choice for suicide and lethal injection.
-----Original Message-----
From: Bev Christian [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 11:16 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [TN] Ionograph measurements (NT) OT!!
So will three bowls of sugar (proved by a mother who forced her candy-loving
child to do this).
And of course drinking enough water will do the same too. Not sure of the
mechanism, my guess would be aspirating your watery puke, but then I'm not a
medical doc (and you should be glad of that!)
Bev Christian
Research in Motion
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Reeves [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: October 7, 2002 1:18 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [TN] Ionograph measurements (NT)
Not only can chlorides cause failures in electronic assemblies, THEY CAN
KILL YOU. At least according to this Reuters news story.... (read just the
second to last sentence)
Tim Reeves
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Kevorkian Murder Conviction Upheld by Supreme Court
Mon Oct 7,10:35 AM ET
By James Vicini
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Assisted suicide doctor Jack Kevorkian ( news - web
sites) lost on Monday a U.S. Supreme Court ( news - web sites) appeal
seeking to overturn his conviction for the videotaped murder of a terminally
ill Michigan man.
Without comment, the justices rejected Kevorkian's appeal arguing the guilty
verdict must be set aside because the right to be free from "unbearable and
irremediable pain and suffering is deeply rooted" in U.S. history and the
Constitution.
Kevorkian, 74, a retired pathologist, is serving a prison sentence of
between 10 and 25 years for second-degree murder in the 1998 death of Thomas
Youk.
Youk, a 52-year-old, Detroit-area man, suffered from amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease ( news - web sites), a severe and
progressive disorder of the nervous system for which there is no cure. He
was in a wheelchair, fed through a tube and forced to use a machine to help
him breathe.
Youk, a former racecar driver, was shown on CBS' "60 Minutes" receiving a
lethal dose of potassium chloride from Kevorkian, who argued during his
trial that it was a "mercy killing."
"The only medical method for ending the interminable suffering of patients
such as Thomas Youk is to provide them with an injection to permanently end
their suffering, though such injection will hasten death," Kevorkian's
lawyer, Mayer Morganroth, said in the appeal.
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