    ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION AND INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL RECORDS, THE DECEASED HAD BEEN EXPERIENCING ABDOMINAL PAIN FOR THE PAST 2 WEEKS.  ON DECEMBER 28, 1996, HE WALKED INTO THE EMERGENCY ROOM  AND ADVISED HOSPITAL STAFF THAT HE HAD BEEN EXPERIENCING ABDOMINAL PAINS, NAUSEA AND VOMITING FOR ABT. 2 TO 3 WEEKS, HOWEVER, DID NOT SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION BECAUSE THERE WAS NO ONE TO TAKE HIM TO THE HOSPITAL.  HIS VITALS WERE TAKEN AND WERE AS FOLLOWS  B/P 122/64, PULSE 140, RESP. 32 AND TEMP. 103.5   ADMITTING DIAGNOSIS:  PANCREATITIS BY ENZYMES AND HISTORY.  THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE OF GALLSTONES AND HE DENIED ETOH.  HE HAD AN INCREASE OF HIS LACTIC ACID DEHYDROGENASE AND SERUM GLUTAMIC OXALOACETIC TRANSAMINASE.  SEVERE ANEMIA WITH SCHISTOCYTES WAS ALSO NOTED.  HE WAS GIVEN A BLOOD TRANSFUSION WHICH HE TOLERATED AND TAKEN TO X-RAY FOR AN ABDOMINAL CT SCAN.  WHILE HE WAS BEING INTERVIEWED, HE BECAME DIAPHORETIC WITH CHILLS AND A TEMPERATURE OF 104.2.  HE STARTED COUGHING UP WHITE SPUTUM AND THEN COMPLAINED OF THE URGENCY TO MAKE A BOWEL MOVEMENT.  WHILE BEING LIFTED ONTO A BED PAN, HE BECAME UNRESPONSIVE AND DEVELOPED RESPIRATORY ARREST.  HE WAS TAKEN TO RESUSCITATION ROOM  WITH EVIDENCE OF CLONUS.  ADVANCE CARDIAC LIFE SUPPORT WAS ADMINISTERED, HOWEVER, HIS CONDITION CONTINUED TO DETERIORATE AND AT 11:13P.M., HE EXPIRED.

    HE HAS NO PAST MEDICAL PROBLEMS.

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