2007-12-19 08:38:07 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
I'm more interested in why they bother using small needles. Hell, give 'em a horse needle!
But there is always such a thing as a last-minute reprieve. If you inject someone with a dirty needle and they get that phone call BEFORE you shunt in the potassium solution, and later get exhonorated by some DNA evidence, you get your butt sued off for giving someone a disease when they weren't guilty of anything.
2007-12-19 08:45:06 · answer #1 · answered by The_Doc_Man 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
ALL needles come sterile. To get an unsterile needle, you'd have to remove it from its sterile packaging and spit on it.
BTW, congratulations on being the 10,000th person to post this.
2007-12-19 13:18:01 · answer #2 · answered by Pangolin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They don't bother to sterilize them. They just come that way. I don't think you can even buy the old sterilizable needles anywhere any more.
2007-12-19 10:47:22 · answer #3 · answered by mommanuke 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Medical ethics.
They start a regular IV line and give the lethal medication via bolus which is shot directly into the line and flushed into the bloodstream. If sometime in the interim a pardon comes thru, they've introduced god knows what into this person's blood system.
2007-12-19 08:49:20 · answer #4 · answered by Sandy Sandals 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
They don't want the dead person to get sick. :P They probably just use a new syringe since they are very inexpensive.
2007-12-19 08:44:39 · answer #5 · answered by Chris R 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋