     ACCORDING TO INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM FAMILY MEMBER AND HOSPITAL RECORDS,  ON AUGUST 15, 1996 DECEASED WAS AT HIS RESIDENCE WALKING UPSTAIRS WHEN HE SUDDENLY FELL BACKWARDS.   HE WAS TAKEN TO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS TREATED AND RELEASED THE SAME DAY.  THE FOLLOWING DAY, HE WAS UNABLE TO WALK AND COMPLAINED OF WEAKNESS. HE WAS AGAIN TAKEN TO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AND SUBSEQUENTLY TRANSPORTED TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS ADMITTED WITH A DIAGNOSIS OF T-7 COMPRESSION FRACTURE.  HE UNDERWENT A RIGHT TRANSTHORACIC T-6 CORPECTOMY.  HE REMAINED IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT AND HIS CONDITION CONTINUED TO DETERIORATE, HE DEVELOPED RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS AND BEGAN HAVING SHORTNESS OF BREATH.  A CHEST X-RAY SHOWED DIFFUSE BILATERAL INFILTRATES. HE ALSO DEVELOPED RENAL FAILURE AND BECAME HYPOTENSIVE.  HE WAS PLACED ON VENTILATION AND REMAINED UNTIL HIS EXPIRATION ON SPETEMBER 4, 1996.
     DECEASED HAD A PAST MEDICAL HISTORY OF CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE, HYPERTENSION, ASBESTOSIS AND HYPERLIPIDEMIA.
    ***BROWARD SHERIFF DEPARTMENT WAS NOTIFIED OF DEATH AND
  ADVISED THAT THEY DID NOT GENERATE A POLICE REPORT.***
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
     

 