Could execution drugs help CV patients?

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21 Apr 2020, 10:32 am

Doctors are asking death penalty states for the drugs they because they believe than can be used to fight Covid-19.

Doctor's haven't specified which drugs there looking for.And so far only Wyoming has responded,saying they don't have the drugs.

I'm sceptical,I'm certain there not looking for potassium chloride that's for sure,and madazolam would just put you to sleep.

I'm really not sure what execution drugs they think will help but doctors are trying to get execution drugs for testing in the Coronavirus.


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21 Apr 2020, 11:02 am

Sodium thiopental was a core medicine in the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines,[3] the safest and most effective medicines needed in a health system

retains popularity as an induction agent for rapid-sequence intubation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_thiopental
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Useful for putting in breathing tubes.
When drug makers realized it was being used to execute people they stopped making it.