If you wanted to keep a patient unconscious, not deeply sedated, but out enough to keep them from resisting a noisy MRI scan, for example, would a drug like Methohexital be way too strong, and how many cubic centimeters, or milliliters I guess, would be a believable dosage for a male patient, age 22, 75 kilograms, and 1.86 meters tall.
Can anyone with medical expertise help me?
Posted by InarticulateBabbler (Member # 4849) on :
You should have entitled this post--as well as its sister-post--"Paging Dr. Genge". Posted by WouldBe (Member # 5682) on :
I suggest 1400 g of ballpeen inhibitor applied in generous doses upside the head in the occipital lobe region. (May cause hammerous aphasia.)
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[This message has been edited by WouldBe (edited October 11, 2007).]
Posted by trousercuit (Member # 3235) on :
Hand him a copy of the Iliad.
Posted by hteadx (Member # 6563) on :
I'm not sure what you mean by "unconscious" Vs. "Heavily sedated"
There are several stages of sedation (Ramsey scale) which can be achieved with several drugs. The easiest and most common drugs used to sedate a patient are the Benzodiazepines family. Diazepam, Lorazepam, and Midozolam are very commonly used to sedate a patient.
Midozolam is the one more commonly used for short invasive procedures. But every hospital is different.
Loading dose is 0.1-0.3 mg/kg and maintenance dose is 0.03-0.25 mg/kg/hr (the wide margin is because every patient metabolizes the drug differently)
Posted by Zero (Member # 3619) on :
hteadx,
That sounds good. I'm going with about 22 milligrams of Midozolam, but I don't know how to convert that into a liquid with a volume in milliliters or cubic centimers. I don't know what the ratio is of that substance of 1 gram to n cc's.
Posted by hteadx (Member # 6563) on :
quote:hteadx,
That sounds good. I'm going with about 22 milligrams of Midozolam, but I don't know how to convert that into a liquid with a volume in milliliters or cubic centimers. I don't know what the ratio is of that substance of 1 gram to n cc's.
This all depends on the brand/formula/mixture the hospital uses. At this point it's dealer's choice on how much cc's you want to give because the ratio is all up to the person giving the drug. They can always mix it with saline to get the cc ratio you want.
Posted by Zero (Member # 3619) on :
So what is a believable range of dosages? 3 milliliters?
Posted by hteadx (Member # 6563) on :
Yes, that's fine.
Posted by J (Member # 2197) on :
I'm no medical expert, but never underestimate the sedative power of whiskey.
