14 DAY TRIAL // Comedienne Joan Rivers died last night at the age of 81, after spending a little over a week in a medically induced coma after she went into cardiac and respiratory arrest during a routine surgical procedure at a private clinic in New York.
Rivers was being treated as an outpatient at the Yorkville Endoscopy Clinic, where she’d gone after complaining of problems with her vocal chords for some time. She was put under for the endoscopy, but when she stopped breathing, she was moved to the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.
Upon arrival, she was placed in a coma and then on life support, and would never wake up.
An investigation is now underway at the private clinic, to determine if the drugs she was administered before the endoscopy might have caused her health crisis. Insiders say for Radar Online that this was definitely the case and that Joan was put under with Propofol, the same drug that was administered to singer Michael Jackson in 2009 in such a high dose as to kill him.
“Certainly, they suspect the anesthesia was the issue, based on conversations between the staff and city medics,” says the spy, adding that Joan went into full cardiac arrest right before the actual procedure.
Staff at the clinic called the ambulance right away, and when paramedics arrived there, they saw “doctors frantically trying to shove a tube down Joan’s throat to get her to start breathing again.” Paramedics managed to get her breathing again, “but she was in very bad shape,” the tipster reveals.
“The drug is routinely used before colonoscopy and endoscopy procedures,” Radar continues. “In fact, a patient who received an endoscopy immediately after Rivers said that staff continued to use the drug after Rivers’ health crisis unfolded, with one staff member even joking, ‘How ironic that Rivers was out from the Michael Jackson drug?’”
Of course, that Propofol killed Joan just like it killed Michael is pure speculation at this point, just as it’s speculation to say that the fault for what happened lies with the staff at the clinic. Despite what this source says, Propofol remains one of the most frequently used drugs for anesthesia in hospitals around the world.
Whether it was misused in Rivers’ case will be determined by the ongoing investigation – at least that part of the report above is completely accurate and not just hearsay. So keep an eye on this space for updates on this.