So here we have the latest 'gassing' victims, racing driver Jenson Button and his wife -
http://ift.tt/1MhgDBg
In shades of the mythical Mattoon Mad Gasser of the 30s and 40s, we are yet again being fed a story about thieves breaking into a property by first pumping anaesthetic gas through the air conditioning to render the inhabitants unconscious. This time the unfeasibly rich Button and his spouse were the victims.
There have been many such stories over the past decade, with thieves in France allegedly using gas to sedate campers and travelling tourists in their tents and vans, as well as people in hotel rooms and villas.
I'm not an expert in the field, that's for certain, but I can't see this being anything but nonsense. To render a person unconscious with anaesthetic gas is a very sensitive and specific procedure. One needs to take account of many factors, including the physical size of the subject, and deliver the gas directly and accurately. Too little gas and all you get is a sore throat, too much and it's brain damage and death. This is why only doctors are anaesthetists and a UK anaesthetist's training program lasts 7 years.
Yet we're expected to believe that theives can pump random amounts of gas into a ventilated room in such precise (and assumedly gargantuan) quantities that it does not awaken or kill the inhabitants but renders them unconscious just long enough for the theft to take place.
I've always thought this to be crazy talk and at last it looks like I'm vindicated, as professionals in the field have been commenting on this latest high profile incident.
So, are all these stories BS as I suspect, or can anybody come up with a way to gas people unconscious in a large, ventilated room without killing them?
http://ift.tt/1MhgDBg
In shades of the mythical Mattoon Mad Gasser of the 30s and 40s, we are yet again being fed a story about thieves breaking into a property by first pumping anaesthetic gas through the air conditioning to render the inhabitants unconscious. This time the unfeasibly rich Button and his spouse were the victims.
There have been many such stories over the past decade, with thieves in France allegedly using gas to sedate campers and travelling tourists in their tents and vans, as well as people in hotel rooms and villas.
I'm not an expert in the field, that's for certain, but I can't see this being anything but nonsense. To render a person unconscious with anaesthetic gas is a very sensitive and specific procedure. One needs to take account of many factors, including the physical size of the subject, and deliver the gas directly and accurately. Too little gas and all you get is a sore throat, too much and it's brain damage and death. This is why only doctors are anaesthetists and a UK anaesthetist's training program lasts 7 years.
Yet we're expected to believe that theives can pump random amounts of gas into a ventilated room in such precise (and assumedly gargantuan) quantities that it does not awaken or kill the inhabitants but renders them unconscious just long enough for the theft to take place.
I've always thought this to be crazy talk and at last it looks like I'm vindicated, as professionals in the field have been commenting on this latest high profile incident.
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Originally Posted by Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCA)
It is the view of the College that it would not be possible to render someone unconscious by blowing ether chloroform, or any of the currently used volatile anaesthetic agents, through the window of a motorhome without their knowledge, even if they were sleeping at the time
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