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what was going on. And I saw her in the wheelchair and she looked like she was in bad shape. She had skin hemorrhages. That.. .that.
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..that was the first thing I noticed was the skin hemorrhages. Umm.. .and she was immediately put in our trauma room and we began a resuscitation. She was entubated. Uh.
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she was put on a heart rate monitor. Umm.
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.1 don’t think there was any activity on the heart rate monitor. We started doing CPR on her.
Umm.. .we got blood. We gave her antibiotics. And I didn’t know really what was going on except that she looked like she had.
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.which is what I told you at the time.
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.something called meningococcemia, which is sort of an overwhelming bacterial sepsis where you get skin hemorrhages. And my background is infectious diseases.. .that’s what I specialized in. And I’d seen a few cases of it and that’s what it looked like to me. Uh.
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.so we did CPR for I’m not sure how long.
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.probably in the neighborhood of a half an hour but I’m not sure. And we couldn’t get her back. Uh.
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and uh.
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that was pretty much the chronology. There wasn’t really umm.
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.anything obvious on .her physical examination other than skin bruises in multiple areas. Uh.
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.she looked dehydrated. Umm... and uh.
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.she wasn’t stiff or anything.. .I mean.. .it looked like whatever had happened had happened relatively recent. I mean it wasn’t hours or days or anything and it seemed like it was an acute terminal event whatever it was. And that’s pretty much my firsthand experience with it.
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Det. Sudler:
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Okay.
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Umm.
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.who was the orderly that made you aware of
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this?
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Do you remember his name?
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Minkoff:
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Might’ve been Willie but I’m not sure.
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