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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. . ..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. . . she was put on a heart rate monitor. Umm. . .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. . .which is what I told you at the time. . .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. . .so we did CPR for I’m not sure how long. . .umm. . .probably in the neighborhood of a half an hour but I’m not sure. And we couldn’t get her back. Uh. . . and uh. . . that was pretty much the chronology. There wasn’t really umm. . .anything obvious on .her physical examination other than skin bruises in multiple areas. Uh. . .she looked dehydrated. Umm... and uh. . .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.
Det. Sudler:
Okay.
Umm. . .who was the orderly that made you aware of
this?
Do you remember his name?
Minkoff:
Might’ve been Willie but I’m not sure.

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