    ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION, INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM THE HUSBAND OF THE DECEASED AND PALMETTO GENERAL HOSPITAL RECORDS, ON NOVEMBER 15, 1996, ABT. 4:30A.M., THE DECEASED WAS AT HOME IN BED WHEN HER HUSBAND WAS AWAKEN BY HER MAKING GURGLING SOUNDS.  HE CHECKED ON HER AND FOUND HER UNRESPONSIVE.  HE CALLED FIRE RESCUE  AND ADMINISTERED C.P.R. UNTIL THEIR ARRIVAL.  UPON THE ARRIVAL OF FIRE RESCUE, SHE WAS STILL UNRESPONSIVE, IN CARDIAC ARREST, WITHOUT VITAL SIGNS AND EKG MONITOR SHOWING ASYSTOLE.  EMERGENCY MEDICAL TREATMENT WAS ADMINISTERED AND SHE WAS TRANSPORTED TO PALMETTO GENERAL HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOM.
    UPON ARRIVAL AT THE EMERGENCY ROOM, SHE REMAINED UNRESPONSIVE, WITHOUT VITAL SIGNS AND IN FULL CARDIAC ARREST.  ADVANCE CARDIAC LIFE SUPPORT WAS ADMINISTERED, HOWEVER, WITHOUT SUCCESS AND AT 6:15A.M., SHE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD.
    ACCORDING TO HER HUSBAND, BEFORE SHE WENT TO SLEEP, SHE COMPLAINED OF MILD ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT.  SHE WAS UNDERGOING WORK UP FOR PAIN AND SWELLING OF JOINTS POSSIBLE HER LOWER EXTREMITIES.  SHE WAS TREATED BY DR. PEDRO ROIG OF PASTEUR CLINIC IN HIALEAH (885-8222  0R 825-7756 ).   HE ALSO STATED THAT SHE WAS SEEN AT PALM SPRINGS HOSPITAL TWO DAYS AGO BECAUSE OF PAIN ALL OVER HER BODY.  ON NOVEMBER 14, 1996, SHE WAS SEEN BY DR. ALEJANDRO O. ROCA (663-0710).  SHE HAS A HISTORY OF LUPUS AND WAS UNDER THE FOLLOWING MEDICATION; DELTASONE, HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE (MEDICATIONS NOT TRANSFERRED).

                              *** REFILED ON MARCH 10, 1997 *** [BAR]
