Doctors who tried to revive Michael Jackson at UCLA Medical Center testified on Monday that the singer's personal physician never told them he gave him the anesthetic propofol as a sleep aid.
The testimony came as the involuntary manslaughter trial of Dr. Conrad Murray entered its second week.
Medical examiners have determined Jackson, 50, died on June 25, 2009 from an overdose of propofol and sedatives
Emergency doctors at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles said that Jackson was already dead when he arrived there.
Nevertheless, lengthy attempts were made to revive him before he was pronounced dead at 2:26 p.m.
"My assessment when he arrived was that he was clinically dead," said emergency room doctor Richelle Cooper, who was on duty at the emergency room the night Jackson died.
Murray told doctors that he had given Jackson only the sedative lorazepam.
"Had Dr. Murray told you he had given 25 mg of propofol at 10:30, would it have altered your treatment of Michael Jackson?" asked defense attorney Michael Flanagan.
"No," answered Cooper.
"Would that have altered the result that happened to Michael Jackson?" Flanagan asked.
"As I said, Mr. Jackson died long before he became my patient," Cooper answered.
"Knowing more, it's still unlikely I could have done something different to him."
Later, the cardiologist called to emergency room when Jackson was admitted testified that Murray, "sounded desperate" and "looked devastated" in the hospital.
Dr. Thao Nguyen said Murray said to her and other doctors, "Do not give up easily. Please try to save his life."
Nguyen said she was called to the emergency room when she received a page saying that a VIP patient, Michael Jackson, had been admitted to the hospital.
"By the time I came down, the patient appeared lifeless," Nguyen said.
"I couldn't find a pulse. My attending couldn't find a pulse."
But Murray told Nguyen's attending physician that he had detected a pulse so, acting in "good faith," Nguyen said, she and her team continued to attempt to resuscitate Jackson.
They made an agreement with Murray that if another attempt and resuscitation efforts with a balloon pump proved futile, she said, they would pronounce him dead.
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