I have been researching the various opioids and prescription drugs that were administered to my girlfriend before, during, and after surgery. I find it difficult to stomach the chemical assault that her body was forced to endure. When I learned that she was injected with PROTOFOL, the powerful anesthetic that (allegedly) killed MICHAEL JACKSON, I was STUNNED. The fact that she is alive today and still has full control of her faculties is a credit to her strong disposition, her knowledge and commitment in practicing what it takes to have optimal health, and her positive mindset.

The following Harvard Health report stated that 100-200 mg of propofol is typically administered during general anesthesia. Based on my reading of my girlfriend's hospital bill, I have concluded that she received 400 mg of propofol during surgery (200 mg multiplied by two units or doses).

At the same time, I know there are those who believe Michael Jackson faked his death... Oh, yes, and the medical doctors injected many other risky pharmaceuticals besides propofol into my girlfriend's body.
-NW

Propofol: the drug that killed Michael Jackson
Peter Wehrwein, Contributor, Harvard Health
Nov 7, 2011

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Prosecutors built a strong case that the 50-year-old “king of pop” died after Dr. Conrad Murray had given Jackson a large dose of propofol (pronounced PRO-poe-fall), a powerful anesthetic, to help him sleep and then left him unattended.

Murray’s defense team spun a theory that Jackson gave himself the lethal dose.

Either way, propofol was at the heart of the case. The Los Angeles County coroner had concluded that Jackson died from “acute propofol intoxication” on June 25, 2009, and Murray’s trial featured lots of testimony about the drug.

Even if propofol isn’t quite a household word, it’s a lot more familiar than it used to be...

...in anesthesiology circles, propofol is a hot item: “We’re using it like crazy,” Dr. Aglio told me.

Propofol is used as an “induction agent” — the drug that causes loss of consciousness — for general anesthesia in major surgery. In lower doses it is also used for “conscious sedation” of patients getting procedures on an outpatient basis at ambulatory surgery centers.

The major reason that propofol has become the induction agent of choice is that the traditional agent, a barbiturate called sodium thiopental, is no longer available, Dr. Aglio explained. Sodium thiopental (the old trade name, Sodium Pentothal, might be more familiar) has been one of the drugs used to execute people with lethal injections, and various groups and countries opposed to the death penalty have used legal and other sorts of pressure on suppliers.

For general anesthesia, anesthesiologists use a large “bolus” of between 100 and 200 milligrams of propofol to put patients under and then a continuous infusion of much smaller amounts (in the micrograms per minute, with the exact amount depending on the person’s weight) to keep patients under. The drug is infused into a vein, and there’s often some pain as it goes in, which is why she was reluctant to use it at first, Dr. (Linda) Aglio said. To prevent that pain, anesthesiologists will often an inject a local anesthetic like lidocaine before the intravenous administration of propofol, she said.

Like many sedating anesthetics, propofol lowers blood pressure and suppresses breathing, so the heart function and breathing of patients need to be constantly monitored. “I won’t leave a patient unattended for a second,” said Dr. Aglio.

When she read about the circumstances of Michael Jackson’s death, her first reaction was shock: “I was surprised that any doctor taking care of him would leave him alone.”

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Here is a small section of my girlfriend's medical bill showing that propofol and other drugs were administered during surgery.