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michael ramsey heads up anesthesiology at baylor medical center in dallas. >> this is something that's entirely preventible, and it's something that we need to stop. >>reporter: but it hasn't. we found as many as 50,000 have died or suffered serious brain injury over the last 10 years. it's equivalent fully loaded jetliners. >> the airline industry, if you had the equivalent of a safety issue where we knew that it was a safety issue and we even knew perhaps how to reduce the likelihood of it occurs, -- occurring, to me that gap would be closed immediately. >>reporter: a gap hospitals have failed to close for more than a decade. >> this sort of collateral damage as it were, whatever cost of doing business, is unacceptable in our healthcare system. >>reporter: where is the pushback? >> so the pushback comes from the medical establishment and i'm way embarrassed to say. >>reporter: four full years ago, the top accrediting agency for hospitals called the joint commission found improper monitoring causes more than one in four adverse events, including death, and may actually be reported. ev

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it has a perfectly fine use in anesthesiology and pain control. but when it is out there on the street, it is very dangerous. you can see from the relative potency, fentanyl is 100 times as potent as morphine, although most people don't abuse morphine. they abuse heroin, and they abuse percocet and vicodin, which are somewhere between as i mentioned, morphine and heroin in that slide in terms of potency. anyway fentanyl is 50 times as , potent as heroin. potent that should , not even be handled without gloves. now there is a new drug called carsentinel which is 1000 times as potent as heroin. that can kill very efficiently. the fda is probably going to increase the dosage of narcan that is being administered in emergency situations to compensate. we're not going to get heavy into the medical weeds. >> go back to the last slide? why was carfentenil made? ms. satel: it's actually an elephant tranquilizer. >> is it the potency or the size of it? ms. satel: i think it's just representative. mr. gingrich: so to knockout an elephant, it is 1000 times mo

it's a very powerful jug drug and has a fine use in anesthesiology and pain control, but when when it's out there on the street, it is very dangerous because you can see from the relative potencies, that knowledge all is a hundred times as potent as morphine, although most people don't abuse morphine but they abuse heroin and they abuse percocet and vicodin which are somewhere between morphine and heroin and that's why, in terms of potency, fenton all is 50 times as potent as heroin, and that shouldn't even be handled without gloves. now there's a new drug around, another variant which is 10000 times as potent as heroin. that can kill very efficiently. the fda is probably going to increase the dosage of narcan that's being administered in emergency situations to compensate for that. my last slide is just about the medications we may talk about today. were not going to get heavy into the medical. >> can you go back to the left side? >> sure. >> why was this made? where did this come from? >> actually elephants. it's an animal born. >> thanks for bringing that up. >> so is at the potency