     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: THE DECEASED HAD A PAST MEDICAL HISTORY OF DIABETES MELLITUS, CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT, END STAGE RENAL DISEASE, HYPERTENSION, RENAL FAILURE, PULMONARY CONGESTION AND HISTORY OF ANKLE SPRAIN. 
     THE DECEASED HAD A HABIT OF SCRATCHING AND REMOVING HIS SHUNT TUBE WHICH DATES BACK TO JULY 20, 1996.  AUGUST 4, 1996 THE DEC'D WAS BEING CHANGED BY THE NURSE'S AIDE WHEN HE BEGAN SCRATCHING HIS LEG.  HE REMOVED THE SHUNT WHICHAFTER HE BEGAN BLEEDING PROFUSELY.  THE NURSE ATTEMPTED TO TIE A TOURNIQUET AND SUMMONED FIRE-RESCUE WHO RESPONDED AND TRANSPORTED HIM TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.
     UPON HIS ARRIVAL INTO THE EMERGENCY ROOM AT 8:25 P.M., HE WAS UNRESPONSIVE WITH NO VITAL SIGNS, INTUBATED WITH C.P.R. IN PROGRESS. ALL EFFORTS TO RESUSCITATE WERE MET WITH NEGATIVE RESULTS, HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 8:40 P.M..