     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION,  THE DECEASED REPORTEDLY HAD HISTORY OF HYPERTENSION AND BRONCHITIS. HE HAD RECENTLY BEEN SUFFERING WITH VIRAL SYMPTOMS AND WAS SEEN BY DR. ENRIQUE HANNABERGH, 314-4402, WHO ADVISED THAT A CHEST X-RAYS DONE THE PRIOR WEEK WAS NEGATIVE.  HIS PAST HISTORY ALSO INCLUDES A FRACTURED STERNUM FOLLOWING A MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT ABOUT 3-4 YEARS AGO. WAS PRESCRIBED AMOXICILLIN AND ROBITUSSIN AND DIAGNOSED WITH BRONCHITIS.   ON OCTOBER 6,1996 HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO PAN AMERICAN HOSPITAL VIA RESCUE, AND ADMITTED TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM WITH COMPLAINTS OF EXPECTORATING BLOOD SINCE THE A.M.  HE HAD COARSE BREATH SOUNDS TO BASES BILATERALLY, ON AUSCULTATION.  HE STATED THAT HE HAD BEEN URINATING RED AND VERY LITTLE FOR ABOUT ONE WEEK.  WAS COLD AND CLAMMY IN SEVERE RESPIRATORY DISTRESS. CHEST X-RAYS WERE DONE AND SHOWED A LEFT HILAR MASS; LYMPHATIC SPREAD TO LEFT LUNG.  HE REQUIRED INTUBATION WHICH WAS DONE AFTER REPEATED EFFORTS, FOLLOWING WHICH HE COUGHED AND HAD MASSIVE BLEEDING THROUGH THE E.T TUBE.  BECAME UNCONSCIOUS, THEN BRADYCARDIC. CPR WAS INITIATED AND RESUSCITATION PROTOCOL FOLLOWED. HE BECAME ASYSTOLIC, THEN WENT TO TRANSIENT PERIODS OF VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION. WAS SHOCKED SEVERAL TIMES AND WENT INTO IDIOVENTRICULAR RHYTHM. DESPITE RESUSCITATION EFFORTS HE REMAINED ASYSTOLIC AND WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 10:05 PM.