Michael Jackson.

Kathi sassykat1121963 at aol.com
Fri Jun 26 07:04:19 UTC 2009


I've been following this all day.  No, I'm not obsessed.  But there are some things that are incorrect on some of the stories.  Michael didn't suffer a heart attack.  Micheal went into cardiac arrest.  They are two different things.  A heart attack involves the cardiac arteries, which are blocked, so the blood is not going to the heart.  
A cardiac arrest is when the heart actually stops.  The victim collapses, has labored breathing, or isn't breathing at all.  From what I have been able to gather through reading some of the stories, Michael collapsed in his home.  Someone (no reports on who) started giving Michael CPR. When the paramedics arrived, there was no pulse.  They continued CPR until they arrived in the ER, and from what has been reported, never restarted his pulse.  Once in the ER, the medical team worked on him for over an hour, but they could not get a pulse either.   I have to tell you something, it took 10 minutes from his home to the hospital.  I don't know how long it took the paramedics to arrive at his home, but I'm assuming it's a low number, like 5 or 6 minutes.  Now at this point, there has not been a pulse for 11-12 minutes.  Then the hospital's efforts add on another 60 minutes.  At this point, Michael's brain would have been deprived of oxygen for over an hour.  Brain damage starts to occur approximately 10 minutes after a cardiac arrest.  So in a way, it's a blessing that Michael passed away.  Because if they were able to revive him in the ER, I can almost guarantee he would have been in a permanant vegetative state.  In other words, all of the things that made Michael, Michael, would have been completely gone.  No music, he wouldn't know his children, or his other family.  He would be an empty shell.  So even though it's trajic that he passed away, it's also a blessing in disguise.  It could have been so much worse.





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