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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.
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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)
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.
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.
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