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More on the Lethal Injection Drug Issue

By Steve Hall

I'm adding several days worth of coverage in this post. "Anesthesiologists 'Extremely Troubled' by Sodium Thiopental Shortage," is at Outpatient Surgery, and is written by Irene Tsikitas. The lone U.S. manufacturer of the anesthetic sodium thiopental announced that it will no longer produce the drug because of its controversial usage in lethal injections, drawing criticism from physicians and pharmacists who say they need the drug for certain patient groups and surgical procedures. Sodium thiopental is not as widely used in surgery as it once was ? propofol and other newer anesthetics having largely surpassed it in popularity ? but it's still "considered a first-line anesthetic in many cases," says the American Society of Anesthesiologists in a statement on Hospira's decision to halt its production...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 02, 2011 (boomark / email).