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A brush with fentanyl almost killed this deputy trainee
SFOGuyThat would be amazing.
I look forward to understanding what the heck happened.
Hysterical reaction?
On the tox screen; that stuff is funny. I think the reason Anesthesia likes it is its super short half life --so--I hope someone thought to get samples before it (maybe?) got metabolized....
"Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid with µ-agonist pharmacologic effects. After intravenous injection, fentanyl plasma concentrations fall rapidly, with sequential distribution half-lives of about 1 minute and 18 minutes, and a terminal elimination half-life of 475 minutes."
I'll be skeptical until they produce a toxicology report. Don't necessarily think it was faked but a misdiagnosis of what happened seems reasonable.
A brush with fentanyl almost killed this deputy trainee
SFOGuyYah, maybe--if you tried to argue it was skin absorbed. Sure--it could have been a panic attack? Maybe? Or staged? Dunno. It's still true that Fentanyl is terrifyingly powerful.
But if they were rousting that car for longer or had earlier contact--PubMed says nasal inhalation takes 7 minutes to effectiveness.
There's also the terrifying possibility he ran into sufentanil. Heroin/morphine is given a potency of 1X; Fentanyl is given a potency of 50X to 100X heroin/morphine; Sufentanil--why was this invented?--has a baseline potency of 7.5X greater than Fentanyl---which makes if between 375X and 750X more potency microgram for microgram than heroin/morphine?
I'm also always struck that the lethal overdose amount of just regular old Fentanyl is--about the size of one grain of rice you see it in a glass vial. The other comparison I've seen is that's about the amount of white powder that would sit in one layer on Lincoln's ear on a penny.
NIOSH says anyone messing around with suspected fentanyl should wear PPE--and then very, very carefully discard it and wash down afterwards.
There's a lot of internet traffic that claims this was essentially "faked" by the department. His controlled fall, some lack of urgency by the trainer, good color/not suffocating... Also a lot of "this is not how fentanyl works" from medical professionals.
A brush with fentanyl almost killed this deputy trainee
SFOGuycrap.
I did a body removal of a male and female sitting in chairs at the kitchen table who overdosed. They were found by a friend.
Their 2 month old baby was found in the crib still alive crying.
Denver cops refuse mandatory Covid vaccinations
SFOGuyThey are waiting for the FDA to certify as something other than Emergency Use Authorization ("EUA")--Although they don't HAVE to wait for that; they could.
One thought? If you push the anti-vaxxer folks out of law enforcement--and this is just conjecture--I wonder if you would also be pushing out a certain proportion of folks with particular political and behavioral beliefs...
Wtf!? Why give them until the end of September!? They should get until the end of business today. The delta variant is highly infectious and much more deadly than previous variants and they interact with dozens of people in close contact daily. Any public employee that interacts with the public should be required to be safe in every reasonable way possible.
So, 71% are about to be unemployed and lose their pensions!? Bullshit, they won’t follow through. Odd when the police want to defund themselves this way. Not surprised that those who enforce the rules declare they won’t follow the rules.
Lake Oroville Drought, California
SFOGuyGlobal warming is real; and it's coming--liberal or conservative, North, South--increasing oscillations in weather, increasingly violent oscillations--are gonna be a thing.
World Record Domino Robot (100k dominoes in 24hrs)
SFOGuySo much joy in his engineering. I hope his son is doing well (Autistic Spectrum)
U.S Black Hawk Helicopter Makes Emergency Landing In Traffic
SFOGuyWhy didn't the wake vortex flip that drone to oblivion?
Ford VS Tesla EV Heating / Cooling comparison
SFOGuyWow. That was kind of amazing. Thanks for posting, Bob.
Deep Dive Dubai - The World's Deepest Pool
SFOGuyHow come they don't get the bends soaring around between deep and shallow?
Chipmunk Gets So Jealous
SFOGuyHantavirus ...
Why Championship Chess Sets Are So Expensive | So Expensive
SFOGuyI mean--awesome? But--also ripe for CADCAM?
Transmission tear down
SFOGuyA Tesla has 18 moving parts in the drivetrain (so says quick a Google search)--and an internal combustion engine has thousands in the engine and drive (2,000?)-- That's a lot of skilled jobs in manufacturing and maintenance that aren't going to be the same as a change over happens.
Man Digs a Hole in a Mountain and Turns it Into an Apartment
SFOGuySkilled but: no eye protection with tools; and no ear protection inside a reverberating cave with power tools...
Uh oh.
What's that ringing noise?
No One Noticed Hawaiian Shirt Worn on 264 Zoom Calls
SFOGuyZoom hurts my brain.
Guy Randomly Walks Up To People To Pillow Fight
SFOGuyWould never want to try this in America--one of those guys would have a gun and no sense to humor.