  ***   THIS CASE WAS BROUGHT IN FROM BERNARDO GARCIA FUNERAL HOME DUE TO HER UNABILITY TO OBTAIN CERTIFICATION FOR THE DEATH AS THE DECEASED WAS DEAD ON ARRIVAL AT A LOCAL HOSPITAL   ***
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     ACCORDING TO INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM THE DECEASED'S SON AND FROM HIS PHYSICIAN, ON SEPTEMBER 14, 1996 ATABOUT NOON TIME, THE DECEASED AND ONE OF HIS SONS WERE LOOKING AROUND TOWN FOR A VEHICLE TO PURCHASE. THEY WERE AT A RESIDENCE LOCATED AROUND SW 49TH AVENUE AND 80TH STREET, LOOKING AT THE VEHICLE FOR SALE, WHEN THE DECEASED SUDDENLY COLLAPSED. CPR WAS INITIATED BY SON AND RESCUE WAS SUMMONED.  FIRE RESCUE RESPONDED AND FOUND HIM UNRESPONSIVE, ELECTROMECHANICAL DISOCIATION ON MONITOR. CPR WAS INITIATED AND HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO SOUTH MIAMI HOSPITAL, WHERE HE WAS ADMITTED TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM AT 12:13 PM.,  COMATOSE, WITH NO VITAL SIGNS, PUPILS FIXED AND DILATED.  RESUSCITATION PROCEDURES CONTINUED UNTIL 12:26 PM., WHEN HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD.  BODY WAS RELEASED TO THE FUNERAL HOME AND TOLD A DOCTOR WILL SIGN; AFTERWARDS, FUNERAL HOME STAFF WAS UNABLE TO OBTAIN CERTIFICATION OF THE DEATH. 
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     ACCORDING TO FAMILY MEMBERS, THE DECEASED HAD BEEN A SMOKER  MOST OF HIS LIFE, BUT WAS NOT A DRINKER.  HAD SUFFERED A HEART ATTACK ABOUT FIFTEEN (15) YEARS AGO.
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   DR. LUIS SANCHEZ-CALDERON, 836-6600, WAS CONTACTED AND ADVISED THAT HE HAD BEEN TREATING THE DECEASED FOR ABOUT ONE YEAR. DIAGNOSIS: END STAGE CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE, HYPERTENSION, HYPERLIPIDEMIA.  WAS ON THEO-DUR, VENTOLIN INHALER, PROVENTIL, NORVASC, SOCOR AND LOPID.



