    ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION, ON DECEMBER 15, 1996, ABT. 7:30A.M., THE PARENTS OF THE DECEASED BROUGHT HIM INTO THE EMERGENCY ROOM AT MIAMI CHILDRENS HOSPITAL DUE TO HIM EXPERIENCING A SEVERE HIGH FEVER (102., CONSTIPATED FOR ABT. 2 WEEKS AND LEFT LEG PAIN).   AT THE TIME OF HIS ARRIVAL, HIS VITAL SIGNS WERE, TEMP. 104.0, PULSE 130, AND RESP. 24.  HIS LEFT LEG WAS SLIGHTLY LIMP.  ACCORDING TO HIS PARENTS, THEY BROUGHT HIM INTO THE EMERGENCY BECAUSE OF A FEVER OF 102., HIM BEING CONSTIPATED FOR ABT. 2 WEEKS AND LEFT LEG PAIN.  HE WAS TREATED, HIS TEMP. DECREASED TO 100.0, PULSE 140, RESP. 20 AND B/P 105/46.  AT 10:25A.M., HE WAS DISCHARGED.  HIS CONDITION CONTINUED TO DETERIORATE, HE HAD A SEVERE HIGH FEVER AND DECEASING ACTIVITY.  BECAUSE OF THIS, HE WAS BROUGHT BACK TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM.  HE WAS TAKEN TO X-RAY FOR A C T SCAN WHICH WAS NEGATIVE.  WHILE IN THE CT ROOM, HE NOTED TO BECOME TACHYPNEIC.  HE WAS TRANSFERRED TO P.I.C.U. IMMEDIATELY AND INTUBATED.  HIS CONDITION CONTINUED TO DETERIORATE, HE WENT INTO CARDIAC ARREST, C.P.R. ADMINISTERED FOR 30 MINUTES WITH PERSISTANT IDIOVENTRICULAR RHYTHM.  ADVANCE CARDIAC LIFE SUPPORT WAS ADMINISTERED, HOWEVER, WITHOUT SUCCESS AND ON DECEMBER 15, 1996, AT 6:30P.M., HE EXPIRED.
    HE HAS BEEN SEEN AT MIAMI CHILDREN HOSPITAL SEVERAL TIMES (JAN. 1996, AUGUST 1996,  SEPT. 1996 AND DECEMBER 1996).  HIS ONLY ADMISSION WAS AUGUST OF 1996.  DIAGNOSIS:  S/P ADENOVIRAL PERICARDITIS, S/P VIRAL SEPSIS, S/P SEPTIC SHOCK, RESOLVED ORAL THRUSH, RESOLVED PNEUMONIA, S/P INTUBATION AND S/P SWAN-GANZ CATHETERIZATION.  



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