June 25 2009, 15 years already.

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Michael Jackson

"The oxygen tank was empty, the equipment disconnected, and there were no monitors or infusion control for intravenous administration. "

Two days before his death, he was rehearsing his next show at the L. A. Staples Center,the city's largest concert hall. Michael prepared carefully and meticulously. His grand return to the stage Ken Ehrlich, producer of the star and witness to his last moments on stage, confided: "Michael lived intensely in rehearsals, during which he gave the best of himself. He was really starting to project himself back into his career. He looked fit and believed in it. " Contrary to the rumors that run about the star's poor health, Ken Ehrlich even says that Michael has been showing a lot of humor lately. " He was really having fun and you could see it during rehearsals. He was ready to take on the show, to take on an incredible performance!"

This account of Michael's last night was corroborated by preliminary autopsy results on August 28, 2009.
The Los Angeles County coroner qualified Michael Jackson's death as homicide.
The singer's autopsy revealed that he had been given propofol, along with several benzodiazepine anxiolytics.

Conrad Murray was administering him at home, ostensibly as a sleeping pill, on a regular basis, but that night. . .
Murray gave him a 10-milligram tablet of Valium, an anxiolytic, at 1:30 a. m.
At 2 o'clock, the doctor administered 2 milligrams of another anxiolytic, Lorazepam, as an intravenous infusion this time.
Then at 3 o'clock, 2 milligrams of a powerful sedative midazolam, still intravenously.
At 5 a. m. , again 2 milligrams of lorazepam, and at 7:30 a. m. , again 2 milligrams of midazolam.
But at 10:40 a. m. , the doctor finally relented.
He administered 25 milligrams of Propofol, which he diluted with lidocaine, always with the infusion system that was permanently in the room.
At 10:50 a. m., he left the room to go to the bathroom and returned a few minutes later to find that his patient was no longer breathing. He tries to resuscitate him and injects him with 0. 2 milligrams of Flumazenil.

It is unclear why emergency services were not called until 12:21 p. m. to this residence, which is minutes from the UCLA hospital, where Michael was finally rushed, and where the ambulance arrived at 1:14 p. m.
Rescuers tried to revive him on the spot, which explains the 53-minute gap. The death was reported at 2:26 p. m.
This concludes a homicide caused by "severe propofol intoxication", other substances that contributed to the death (lorazepam, midazolam, diazepam - Valium -, lidocaine and ephedrine).
Pronounced dead on June 25, 2009 at 2:26 p. m.

The Los Angeles Times reports that Conrad Murray received no fewer than eleven phone calls during the five hours from the beginning of Michael's medical distress to his admission to the emergency room, including three phone calls that lasted at least forty-five minutes.

The family obtained a second autopsy.

Final coroner's report. Thirteen puncture marks, thirty-eight marks in total on the body of the King of Pop, who died at his residence in Los Angeles on June 25, 2009. That's what the medical examiner in charge of the autopsy found.
Sting wounds were found on his neck, arms and legs. The report, which concludes that the care the star received during the final hours of his life violated all acceptable medical standards, was a centerpiece of the highly publicized trial of Michael Jackson's cardiologist and personal physician. The dose of propofol given was equivalent to that usually given to a patient before major surgery.

Eleven vials of propofol were found at the singer's home, and none resulted from a prescription, nor bore the name of the patient or doctor.

"The oxygen tank was empty, the equipment disconnected, and there were no monitors or infusion control for intravenous administration." In addition to propofol, Michael's blood contained anti-anxiety sedatives lidocaine, diazepam and lorazepam for anxiety, nordiazepam, midazolam, and ephedrine, used for narcolepsy and depression. Murray's personal physician, Conrad Murray, told investigators that his patient suffered from chronic insomnia and had been dependent on propofol for years to get to sleep. But an anaesthetist consulted by the coroner argued that no studies had reported the effectiveness of using this substance to treat or relieve insomnia. "The only reports of its use in a domestic setting are cases of fatal overdose – suicides, murders or accidents," confirms Dr Selma Calmes.

She added that because of the risk of heart attack or respiratory problems, propofol should only be administered by anaesthetists. "Extreme monitoring of the patient is required when it is administered," she added.

Professor François Chast, Head of the Clinical Pharmacy Department of the Paris Centre University Hospitals. Because, as the investigation has shown, the product was administered to Michael Jackson completely outside his indications and conditions. "In the OR, propofol is a highly safe drug, it is quickly eliminated, which makes it an ideal product for outpatient surgery. We sleep as soon as it is infused and we wake up very quickly after stopping, continues the pharmacologist. But it can only be used in a hospital setting, with cardio-respiratory monitoring and, if necessary, resuscitation equipment. "

The media took the opportunity, as usual, to act out the body wrapped in a white shroud, transported to the Los Angeles morgue, the transfer filmed live by local television from helicopters.

The home, the doctor's office, a pharmacy in Las Vegas, as well as his office and a storage room in Houston, Texas, were searched by investigators from the police and the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). Dr. Murray's record includes an arrest in 1994 for domestic violence, but he was acquitted. He reportedly suffered financial hardships, including unpaid child support and a partner's complaint following a failed attempt to launch an energy drink; and his Las Vegas home was threatened with foreclosure.
On 8 February 2010 , Conrad Murray pleaded not guilty to manslaughter charges , and was released on deposit of $75,000 USD.
In November 2011, he was sentenced to four years in prison for manslaughter, finally he did it only 2 years and was released in October 2013, due to prison overcrowding, since he disappeared from the system. . .
The doctor's behavior was at the heart of another lawsuit, opponent the Jackson clan against promoter AEG, producer of the show "This is it". The Jacksons demanded hundreds of millions of dollars from AEG, believing that AEG had neglected the singer's health by leaving him in the hands of Conrad Murray. However, the jury estimated that the doctor was competent .

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