I would like to see this in context
I am not for withholding pain meds against an injured person... I am just for getting him on trial ASAP, obtaining the conviction, and putting him out of his misery permanently
Well, here's the problem with pumping him up with pain meds.
We can't put him on trial while he's on mind-altering substances like morphine, dilaudid, avenza, demerol, percocet, etc etc.
He (or his lovely criminal lawyer, per Barry's view this is a criminal mater, not an act of war) will claim the medications make him unfit to understand the charges against him, unable to defend himself and unfit to stand trial.
Hence, I say we withhold pain meds, but provide other palliative relief as necessary (ie, applying silvadene cream, topical viscous lidocaine, as well as wound debridement, etc).
Lidocaine is a local anesthetic (numbing medication). It works by blocking nerve signals in your body.
Lidocaine viscous is used to treat sores inside the mouth, during dental procedures to numb the gums, and to numb the skin for a medical procedure (such as getting stitches).
Lidocaine viscous may also be used for other purposes not listed in this medication guide.
This way the man is clear-headed and free to defend himself.
And we're not monsters.
Are you under the impression that there is going to be a trial in a couple of days or something????????
I think you fail to understand just how serious this man's injuries actually are and how long his medical treatment will last.
2nd and 3rd degree burns that destroy organs (such as his Winky) are gaping open wounds that must be treated for infection aggressively, due to the very high risk of infections, especially due to the nature of the treatment itself.
For instance, his Winky was blown off. Just how do you think the man pees now? Yes, that's right. He has a catheter. Probably will the rest of his life--and that life might be shortened by many, many years simply because of the *catheter* itself due to massive infection introduced BY the catheter. Inserting and removing catheters on a daily basis opens a person up to urethral, bladder and kidney infections.
Those are SERIOUS infections that can kill a burn patient.
Nevermind the raging 3rd degree burns surrounding that catheter, burns which could also become infected and kill him.
The man is quite suseptible to massive total body infection--something called "Sepsis"--which is when an infection in your body travels to your blood stream.
Sepsis is DEADLY.
Once a person in his condition is "Septic", there's really not a hell of a lot they can do. Except pray hard and use whatever medications left in the arsenal that might work. There are some *very strong* antibiotics they can try to knock back the infections, but many bacteria are becoming quite resistant to even to the last line of defense antibiotics. (for instance MRSA infections).
With 3rd degree burns, a missing open oozing Winky, daily catheterization, there are just too many routes for bacteria to enter his body, attack, take over and kill him.
No, even if he has a trial 3 years from now, he will still require quite a bit of ongoing medical care which would indicate the need for some type of opiod pain relief.
If he survives his wounds, he's gonna be in pain pretty much the rest of his life.
I'm just against offering him all but the most basic palliative care, topical antesthetic, antibiotics, etc.
But NO opiods. Not for this fella. He blew that opportunity when he tried to slaughter 300+ American citizens on American soil.
