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SUPPLEMENT/ CONTINUATION
FL0520300/Clearwater Police Department
Report No.
95-29158
Offense
Death Investigation
Date of Report
3/6/97
I checked her pulse.. ,her radial pulse.. .and I could not find one, I thought... sometimes if somebody has a really low blood pressure, you can’t get a radial pulse but you’ll be able
to get a femoral and carotid. So I didn’t... I still didn’t know for sure at that time whether she had a pulse or not. And I
could see Rick Pemberton, who was the triage nurse, through the window. He was triaging and I knew I needed help because I would never be able to get her out of that van. And so I believe I might’ve started to ask the woman who was in the front seat to get Rick.. .tell Rick to help me. But in any case, I went in myself and I told Rick that I needed him now. He immediately came out. He went into the van. Umm. .he could not find a pulse. And I don’t know exactly.. .you know.., if anything else occurred. But I remember next going into.., back through the ambulance door to get some more help. And umm. . .our PCT came immediately with a wheelchair. And those two.. .maybe others.. .I’m not sure... put her into the wheelchair and we brought her right into Room 2, where they started resuscitation at that time.
Det. Carrasquillo:
What else did you do?
 Klimaszewski:
Umm. ..I was.,. I was there for the resuscitation attempt. I
know I tried to.. I was right next to another nurse called Roxanne. And I don’t know if she was trying to start an I.V. and draw the blood and I was helping her or I was trying and she was helping me, We were kinda right next to each other


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