     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: ON AUG. 22, 1996 THE DECEASED WAS COMPLAINING OF CHEST PAIN AND WENT INTO CARDIAC ARREST.  SHE WAS TRANSPORTED TO CORAL GABLES HOSPITAL BY FIRE RESCUE.  
     UPON ARRIVAL HER TEMP. WAS 98, PULSE 96, RESPIRATION 28, BLOOD PRESSURE 127/84 AND SHE WAS EXPERIENCING AGONAL BREATHS.  CPR WAS INITIATED, BUT TO NO AVAIL AND SHE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 12:05 AM, AUG. 23, 1996.
     SHE HAD BEEN UNDER THE CARE OF DR. PREREIRA (221-3111).  HE ADVISED HE WAS NOT TREATING THE DECEASED FOR ANY MAJOR ILLNESSES.  HER EKG WAS NORMAL.  SHE DID HAVE AN ELEVATED BLOOD PRESSURE AT TIMES, RANGING BETWEEN 140/86 AND 150/90, BUT HE DID NOT CONSIDER HER HYPERTENSIVE.  SHE WAS ALSO A HEAVY SMOKER.  SHE DID NOT HAVE ANY HOSPITALIZATIONS UNDER HIS CARE.
     THE HUSBAND OF DECEASED ADVISED SHE WAS HYPERTENSIVE, BECAUSE BEING A PARAMEDIC HIMSELF HE WOULD MONITOR HER BLOOD PRESSURE AND HER LAST READING WAS 160/100.  SHE SMOKED A PACK OR LESS OF CIGARETTES A DAY, DRANK ABOUT ONCE A WEEK, BUT DID NOT USE ILLEGAL DRUGS.  SHE WAS NOT TAKING BIRTH CONTROL PILLS, BECAUSE SHE HAD A TUBALIGATION ABOUT TWENTY YEARS AGO.  SHE HAD COMPLAINED OF BLADDER PROBLEMS AND HAD A HISTORY OF SEIZURE DISORDER, NONTRAUMATIC.  SHE WOULD SEIZE ABOUT ONCE EVERY TWO YEARS AND HER LAST SEIZURE WAS ABOUT SIX MONTHS AGO IN WHICH SHE WAS TREATED AT DOCTOR'S HOSPITAL.  SHE ALSO UNDERWENT BACK SURGERY FOR A HERNIATED DISC PRIOR TO HER LAST SEIZURE AT DOCTORS HOSPITAL OR BAPTIST HOSPITAL.