Dr. Conrad Murray, a cardiologist, said via his attorney Edward Chernoff, he did not call 911 for 30 minutes after he began doing CPR on Michael Jackson.

To successfully save someone in cardiac arrest most supportive measures need to be performed within 5 to 10 minutes, or as quickly as possible, like shocking the heart with a defibrillator, after they are hooked up to an EKG to determine if they need to be shocked, an IV (intravenous line) started to administer drugs to support the heart and circulation like epinephrine (adrenalin), atropine, and perhaps anti arrhythmic drugs such as lidocaine, pronestyl, bretylium, or amiodarone, depending on the heart rhythm the person is in. If the heart stopped, or isn’t beating effectively, an external pacemaker could be applied to keep the heart beating.

There are three extremely suspicious issues here. First Dr. Murray, who is a heart doctor, did not properly perform CPR. An adult is always placed on a hard surface, and CPR is then performed with two hands, otherwise the proper compressions may not occur to circulate the blood in the body, and to the brain. Second, the rumors are that Michael stopped breathing, but Dr. Murray never said he did mouth-to-mouth to provide Michael’s body with oxygen. If Michael’s heart stopped beating because Michael wasn’t breathing, and the heart stopped due to a lack of oxygen, then giving Michael mouth-to-mouth would support his heart. Only giving Michael chest compressions, and not giving Michael oxygen with mouth-to-mouth breathing, for 30 minutes would kill anyone. Third, doing CPR for 30 minutes, with one hand behind the person’s back is so exhausting you couldn’t possibly keep going. Put a pillow on your bed, then put on hand underneath it, and do CPR type compressions on top of the pillow for 30 minutes, and you will see how hard that is.

The bottom line is this. Dr. Murray, in my opinion, did everything he could to delay Michael getting proper emergency medical attention, that the doctor could not possibly provide just by virtue of the fact he was a doctor. Without the proper emergency equipment and medication, Michael was sure to die, and he did.

Dr. Murray’s other excuse for not calling 911 was that Michael’s phones in the house didn’t work, and Michael didn’t have a phone in his room. All doctors walk around with a cell phone on their hip. Dr. Murray’s response was that he didn’t know Michael’s exact address for 911, so he waited until he could get security to call for him.

We believe Dr. Murray should be investigated for malpractice, and possible criminal charges, in the death of Michael Jackson. Even if Dr. Murray did not give Michael the drugs that could have killed him, Dr. Murray certainly didn’t do what a CPR trained non-medical professional would have done, like call 911 right away, and give Michael CPR on the floor with two hands. Murray admits he was being paid $150,000 per month to be Michael’s personal physician, but he certainly didn’t give Michael even a dollar worth of care in our opinion.

Dr. Murray’s attorney keeps saying Murray checked to make sure there was blood flow during CPR. How could Dr. Murray check to see if there was blood flow, which is done by feeling the pulse in the neck via the carotid artery, if one hand was behind Michael’s back, and the other hand was on Michael’s chest? Murray isn’t believable.