From how many days michael was treated with propofol and when the treatment began?
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Executive summary
The medical record and trial evidence establish that the decisive administration of propofol that killed Michael Jackson occurred on the morning of 25 June 2009, when Dr. Conrad Murray gave a 25 mg intravenous bolus of propofol at about 10:45–10:50 a.m. [1] [2]. Reporting and trial testimony also show Jackson had received or requested propofol at various times before 2009, but the available sources do not provide a precise count of how many separate days he was treated with propofol prior to his death, so a definitive “number of days” cannot be stated from the provided material [3] [4] [5].
1. The final, fatal dose — when it began on the fatal day
Court and clinical materials agree that on 25 June 2009 Murray administered a small bolus of propofol (25 mg IV, with lidocaine also noted) around 10:45–10:50 a.m.; that administration is the specific propofol dose tied directly to the collapse and subsequent death that day [1] [2]. Multiple contemporary summaries and expert reviews used in the manslaughter prosecution characterize that injection as the trigger in the sequence that led to acute propofol intoxication and respiratory arrest [6] [7].
2. The pattern before the fatal injection — repeated use but no clear day count in public records
News reporting, court testimony and later articles document that Jackson had used propofol as a sleep aid prior to June 2009 and that Murray had given him propofol “as he had many times before,” but none of the supplied sources provide an authoritative ledger or calendar enumerating the exact number of days he was treated with propofol [5] [3]. Testimony introduced at later civil and criminal proceedings referenced requests and use going back years — including testimony that Jackson asked other clinicians for propofol roughly a decade earlier — yet those accounts establish pattern and requests rather than a day-by-day treatment record [4] [8].
3. How prosecutors and experts framed the timeline
Prosecutors built their case around the immediate chronology on 25 June 2009 — sedatives given overnight, followed by the propofol bolus mid‑morning and failure to properly monitor afterward — rather than attempting to prove a precise cumulative-day total of propofol treatments [7] [6]. Clinical experts who testified at trial focused on the pharmacology of that morning’s medications and on Jackson’s dependence on propofol during prior touring, not on tabulating exact treatment days in the public record [1] [5].
4. What the sources can and cannot prove
It is supported by the sources that propofol was given on the fatal morning (25 June 2009, ~10:45–10:50 a.m.) and that Jackson had a history of propofol use and requests stretching back years [1] [4] [3]. What the provided reporting and trial materials do not supply is a definitive, source‑verified count of “how many days” in total Jackson was treated with propofol; public reporting records patterns, isolated requests and repeated use, but not a consolidated daily treatment log accessible in these sources [3] [8].
5. Alternative viewpoints and implicit agendas in the record
Defenses and supporters of Murray emphasized the single-dose narrative and disputed medical interpretations about monitoring and causation, while prosecutors and medical experts framed the case as chronic misuse culminating in a fatal administration [2] [7]. News outlets and medical commentators have at times highlighted propofol’s rarity as a sleep aid to underline Murray’s culpability [6] [9]; civil litigants have used past requests and patterns to argue institutional or managerial responsibility, but those arguments also rely on incomplete public records [3] [4].