LOS ANGELES (AP) - Michael Jackson was exhausted after a day of intense rehearsals for their tour of 50 nights, but his battle with insomnia had just begun. After showering and getting into bed, Jackson called his "milk", a powerful anesthetic substance that had been using to escape into unconsciousness.
Jackson considered the anesthetic called propofol as their salvation. On June 25, 2009, became the deadly potion for the King of Pop
How did Jackson ended up taking an overdose of a drug created for use in hospitals? That is the focus of the murder trial this week the doctor that the singer hired as personal physician to the tour, "This is It".
Are expected to dominate the drug evidence on the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray, a Houston cardiologist who has pleaded guilty to charges of manslaughter in the Superior Court of Los Angeles.
Prosecutors say Murray was grossly negligent to give Jackson propofol at home without the necessary equipment to save his life and left the room for a long enough time to find his patient not breathing when he returned.
The defense says the singer, desperate to sleep, took an additional dose of anesthetic when the doctor was out of the room.
To elucidate the truth, the jury will rely on often technical testimony of a number of medical experts, pathologists, and even the police and paramedics who examined the Murray team in the bedroom where Jackson suffered his heart attack.
The defense theory, based on evidence that a minimum amount of propofol -0.13 mg, was found in Jackson's stomach, it may be hard to believe.
The substance is given intravenously, usually during surgery. Scientists Funj witnesses may have to explain how the drug came to Jackson's stomach. Some doctors say that eating orally is almost unknown.
"The defense theory is strange, extreme," says Dr. Gil Tepper, chief of staff in the Miracle Mile Medical Center in Los Angeles. "You would not sleep and would go through the body quickly, causing horrible diarrhea."
There are few rigorous studies are few statistics on deaths caused by the anesthetic. It was unclear whether the judge would permit the filing of a study of Chilean medical students who took the drug voluntarily or a study on pigs that were administered per rectum.
The defense has an advantage with one of his lawyers, J. Michael Flanagan, who says he is the only attorney in California who has worked on a case of death by propofol.
Flanagan represented a couple of nurses accused of killing a cancer patient, who allegedly received propofol without authorization of an anesthesiologist. Advocated by Flanagan was acquitted and the other chose not to contest a misdemeanor.
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