     ACCORDING TO INITIAL INFORMATION RECEIVED: JULY 29, 1996 THE DECEASED WAS ADMITTED TO PALMETTO GENERAL HOSPITAL FROM AN ADULT DAY CARE PSYCHIATRIC CENTER WITH A PAST MEDICAL HISTORY OF ARTERIOSCLEROTIC HEART DISEASE, S/P PERMANENT PACEMAKER AND QUESTIONABLE SEIZURE DISORDER. HE WAS TAKING KLONOPIN, POTASSIUM, TEGRETOL, PROZAC, LASIX, RISPERDAL AND BENADRYL.
     UPON ADMISSION HE WAS COMPLAINING OF SHORTNESS OF BREATH AND COUGH, HE WAS ALERT BUT CONFUSED. ADMITTING DIAGNOSIS: R/O PNEUMONIA.  
     HE WAS TREATED SUPPORTIVELY UNTIL AUGUST 6, 1996 AT 12:29 P.M. WHEN NURSES ENTERED HIS ROOM AND FOUND HIM ON THE FLOOR UNRESPONSIVE WITH NO VITALS. URINE AND FECES SURROUNDED HIS BODY, CODE BLUE WAS CALLED, HE WAS INTUBATED AND C.P.R. INITIATED. HE WAS PLACED BACK IN BED AND TRANSPORTED TO THE S.I.C.U. AREA WHERE RESUSCITATIVE EFFORTS WERE CONTINUED, HOWEVER TO NO AVAIL, HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD.