In article <
[email protected]>,
Nancy Young <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Katra wrote:
> >
> > In article <
[email protected]>, Cindy Fuller
> > <
[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > You've got that right, Michel. I used this as a "teachable moment" in my nutrition class
> > > today. Many of my students are nursing majors. First off, I pointed out that the person who
> > > released Atkins's NYC Medical Examiner report was in violation of professional ethics and
> > > patient confidentiality. Then we did the math on Atkins's ideal body weight and pondered how
> > > someone could gain over 60 pounds in 8 days. The doctors would have had to pump in about 4
> > > liters of fluid a day to do so, and his kidneys would have had to cease functioning
> > > completely.
>
> > Depends on the IV rate...... and docs seem to be fond of a lot of IV fluids in patients who are
> > dying.
Average IV rate is 60 to 80 mls per hour and I've seen it go higher.
> >
> > If his blood pressure was low, (which is likely since the article mentioned CHF), it would not
> > surprise me if he had renal insufficiency.
> >
> > I've seen head injured patients swell up like ballons with edema.
>
> I'm not sure where I'm coming in on this subject, I haven't been following along. (laugh) I'm
> getting to the point were the words Atkins and carbs make my eyes glaze over.
>
> At any rate, I kept hearing this thing about Atkins being obese and I wondered, am I completely
> out of touch? Every picture I saw of him, he looked okay to me. Not exactly gaunt, but not obese.
> Then I heard about him being admitted at 195 and 260 (whatever) when he died. Oh, that makes
> sense. It's not fat.
>
> Well, this morning on Good Morning America (I think), they had an (Atkins advocate?) doctor who
> mentioned this report. Whoever made the report insisted it couldn't be fluid retention. I thought,
> he was admitted at 195 and died at 260. Are you trying to tell me that someone on life support
> gained that much weight from hospital food????????????????? Yeah, I know he must have been chowing
> down on full sugar Jello. Come on!
>
> nancy
He was in a coma... How could he "eat"?
If someones says it was not purely fluid gain, they are full of feces and anti-low carb.
What a bunch of ass holes!
K.
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