     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: DECEASED HAD A PAST MEDICAL HISTORY OF CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE AND ASTHMA. AUGUST 27, 1996 SHE UNDERWENT HERNIA SURGERY, HOWEVER SHE DEVELOPED COMPLICATIONS REFERENCE THE SURGICAL INCISION AREA. THE AREA BECAME BLACK IN COLOR AND WOULD NOT HEAL DESPITE NUMEROUS ANTIBIOTICS. 
     NOVEMBER 2, 1996 THE DECEASED WAS RELEASED HOME FROM PALM SPRINGS GENERAL HOSPITAL. SHE WAS DRIVEN HOME BY HER HUSBAND WHO STATES THAT AFTER THEY ARRIVED HOME IN THE DRIVEWAY, SHE SUFFERED WHAT WAS BELEIVED TO BE AN ASTHMA ATTACK. HE SUMMONED FIRE-RESCUE WHO RESPONDED AND FOUND HER UNRESPONSIVE AND IN ASYSTOLE. C.P.R. WAS INITIATED AND SHE WAS TRANSPORTED TO HIALEAH HOSPITAL.
     UPON HER ARRIVAL INTO THE EMERGENCY ROOM, SHE REMAINED UNRESPONSIVE WITH NO VITALS. ALL EFFORTS TO RESUSCITATE WERE MET WITH NEGTAIVE RESULTS, SHE WAS PRONOUNCED AT 12:40 P.M..

                                   REFILED  11/15/96    GDS   	