     ACCORDING TO INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM DEERING HOSPITAL MEDICAL RECORDS,  DECEASED BOYFRIEND STATED THAT ON NOVEMBER 11, 1996 THEY WERE AT HOME DRINKING WHEN SHE SUDDENLY BEGAN COUGHING AND HAD A LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS.  FIRE RESCUE WAS SUMMONED AND TRANSPORTED HER TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM WHERE SHE ARRIVED IN VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION AND TACHYCARDIA AND WAS DEFIBRILLATED SEVERAL TIMES.  SHE WAS ADMITTED WITH A DIAGNOSIS OF CARDIO PULMONARY ARREST, RULE OUT MYOCARDIAL INFARCT, RULE OUT ELECTROLYTE IMBALANCE, RULE OUT DRUG TOXICITY.  SHE DEVELOPED A SEVERE HYPERTENSIVE CRISIS - A CT OF BRAIN SHOWED NO ACUTE HEMORRHAGE.  TOXICOLOGY WAS POSITIVE FOR COCAINE, ALCOHOL AND AMPHETAMINES.  SHE WAS TAKEN TO THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT IN A COMATOSE STATE. AN EKG SHOWED SEVERELY DEPRESSED LVSF EJECTION FRACTION 10%. A BALLOON PUMP PLACEMENT AND CARDIAC CATHERIZATION WAS DONE.  HOWEVER, HER CONDITION CONTINUED TO DETERIORATE - SHE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD ON NOVEMBER 13, 1996 AT 12:05A.M.
     DECEASED HAD A HISTORY OF DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE BUT HAD NO SIGNIFICANT MEDICAL PROBLEMS.   HER REMAINS WERE RELEASED TO CABALLERO-WOODLAWN AND SUBSEQUENTLY BROUGHT INTO THIS OFFICE FOR PROPER CERTIFICATION. 

                                                                                              ***REFILED: 3/18/97*** 
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