     ACCORDING TO INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL MEDICAL CHART (PATIENT # 247-85-67), THE DECEASED REPORTEDLY HAD A GESTATIONAL AGE OF THIRTY-NINE PLUS WEEKS. WAS  GRAVIDA 8,  WITH FOUR LIVING CHILDREN. ON SEPTEMBER 24, 1996 SHE WAS ADMITTED TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL - LABOR AND DELIVERY AFTER SHE HAD BEEN EXAMINED AND HER BABY WAS FOUND TO BE IN PERSISTENT TACHYCARDIA. SHE WAS GIVEN TWO AMPS OF TERBUTALINE IN LABOR AND DELIVERY AND AT THAT POINT WAS DECIDED TO BRING HER BACK DUE TO FETAL BRADYCARDIA FOR URGENT CESAREAN SECTION. THE PROCEDURE WAS UNEVENTFUL UNTIL THE BABY WAS DELIVERED AND FOUND TO BE FLOPPY AND CPR WAS STARTED.  AT ABOUT EIGHT MINUTES LATER SHE APPEARED TO BE IN RESPIRATORY DISTRESS AND AT THAT POINT IT WAS DECIDED TO INTUBATE HER. SHE WAS STABLE AFTER INTUBATION WITH SPONTANEOUS VENTILATION, BUT THREE MINUTES LATER SHE BECAME BRADYCARDIC AND HAD NO RESPONSE OR HEART RATE. CPR WAS INITIATED AND SHE RESPONDED, BUT LATER ON SHE AGAIN WENT INTO BRADYCARDIA AND HYPOTENSION.  AFTER SEVERAL EPISODES OF RESUSCITATION ATTEMPTS, SHE DECOMPENSATED AND DID NOT RESPOND TO MEASURES. WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 4:37 AM., SEPTEMBER 25,1996.
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     THE BABY, M.E. CASE 96-2521,  WAS DELIVERED AND ALSO PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 5:20 AM.


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