Nice discussion on blood alcohol levels. Alcohol elimination from the body is usually a linear function, ie a fixed percentage over a set period of time, not an exponential function which usually defines typical drug elimination, ie levothyroxine has an elimination half life of seven days, half of the total in your body is gone in seven days, half of the remainder is gone in another seven days, after 14 days you're still carrying a quarter of the drug you consumed or had on board 14 days before.
Nothing in that autopsy report gave any reason why Andrew Breitbart should not still be chatting on the sidewalk in front of the Mormom Temple in Westwood with the Angel on the spire reaching Heavenward, or why he is dead today. Millions of people in this country have hardening of the arteries, some have symptoms, most do not. During the Korean War they autopsied the dead GI casualties and found a great many, even at the tender ages of 18, had started to develop coronary artery disease, some more than others. But none of them were dead because of their coronary artery disease, and the causes of their death were very, very obvious, for instance, a round from a North Korean or Chicomm rifle through the brain, heart or lung, or piece of shrapnel from a North Korean or Chicom artillery round through the same body organs.
If Mr Breitbart died from coronary artery disease, how bad were his arteries. 90% occluded, 40% occluded? There are people walking this earth with arteries 90% occluded, pain and symptom free.
Did he die of a coronary infarct? What vessel? Was the Left Anterior Descending completely occluded? How large was the subsequent infarct? The mechanism behind a heart attack is usually a piece of plaque on the wall of the artery breaking off and floating downstream, eventually lodging in an artery. The larger the piece of plaque, the larger the artery blocked, and consequently the greater the amount of heart muscle damaged or destroyed. Heart muscle does not grow back, ever.
People don't usually die from small infarcts. They usually survive, they may have trouble getting out of bed and walking the ten feet to the window, but they survive.
Did Mr Breitbart's heart have electrical problems? Was it an unremitting ventricular fibrillation that did him in? You usually have about three minutes when that occurs. You can live forever with atrial fibrillation on the other hand.
Did he have an aneurism on the ascending or descending aorta that ruptured?
All of these events leave a visible trail, just like a rifle round or a piece of shrapnel.
The pathologist that issued this report is snowing us, shoveling load of horse manure after load of horse manure. Feeding Pablum, Cream of Wheat, or baby food to the unwitting masses.
