Quick Medical Question

[soren7550]

Thanks all for the help! I'll yet y'all know what the teacher thinks of it when I hand in the first draft.

 

[Clashero]

I don't know if the medusa spider from the TV show Lost is real, and Wikipedia refuses to load any pages. If it's real, go with that.

EDIT: Checked: it's fictional. Too bad.

 

[zacaron]

while not a drug if its just a story you could obtain it, the poison from some sort of sushi blowfish will cause the paralasis your looking for.

 

[Aptspire]

anestesiacs keep the user conscious while cauing paralysis (on the whole body if there's enough)
look em up

 

[Fightgarr]

I think some spider poisons do that. Or maybe that's just from a TV show.
I don't watch Lost, but isn't that the plot of one episode?

 

[Bofus Teefus]

succinylcholine!

Thats what we use in the ER

Short acting, though. 5 minutes (ish). Had a guy stay tense on it a few days ago. I actually think we just missed it's action. It's very fast.

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

There's one called Pancuronium: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancuronium_bromide

It's what they use in lethal injections in the US.

I was gonna say that! Darn it.

 

[Seldon2639]

Pancuronium bromide would work.

It's what they use during lethal injections. There are many doctors who believe that it does not knock a person out, but simply makes them unable to react. The same thing would happen with Vecuronium bromide, or any other neuromuscular non-depolarizing agent. I'm assuming the guy wants to induce a conscious coma, and then hurt them, rather than simply killing them with the drug, so things like tetrodotoxin is out (as would be most other poisons which occur in nature, which not only induce a conscious coma, but also kill the dude).