i'm bringing over this post from the ems thread. This is why dr. Peterson will be such an important witness, imo. And he certainly didn't care for max alone-- max had probably a dozen or more specialist physicians caring for him. And of those physicians could also speak to what was told to jonah and dina about max's diagnosis and prognosis.
The very fact that so many "suicide supporters" are hanging on dr. Peterson's one statement to this day, says to me that this statement was a very potent catalyst and motive for rebecca's (imo) murder.
I don't think any of the pediatric blunt cranial trauma statistics are unknown to him-- he is an anesthesiologist and pediatric intensivist, after all. I do think one statement he made has been taken completely out of context. For all we know, his statement about the "visible injuries" could have been made on arrival in the ed, before any imaging had been done demonstrating the severity of the head and spinal cord trauma.
Please note that this study was done
by researchers at san diego rady children's hospital, and involved nearly 11,000 child victims of trauma. that is a very robust cohort for data. This study, and others i linked in the ems thread are a very potent reality check about what was going on with max and his devastating injuries in the first 24 to 48 hours. As i've said before, i am confident that measures to establish brain death were implemented very early in max's admission to rady-- almost certainly in the first 24-48 hours. These are the same measures (eeg, etc) that were simultaneously being implemented to establish the extent of his injuries and prognosis.
cardiac arrest induced by blunt trauma in children.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10460086
here is a link to the rest of the ems thread. Lots of outcome studies about pediatric blunt cranial trauma and cardiac arrest at the scene. I'm sure dr. Peterson is familiar with all of them, and many more.
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