Tragedy struck the entertainment world when Joan Rivers passed away last month and the New York City Medical Examiner’s Office has finally announced the cause of her demise.
According to spokeswoman Julie Bolcer, “OCME [Office of the Chief Medical Examiner] has completed its investigation. The cause of Ms. Rivers’ death is anoxic encephalopathy due to hypoxic arrest during laryngoscopy and upper gastrointestinal endoscopy with propofol sedation for evaluation of voice changes and gastroesophageal reflux disease.”
Ms. Bolcer continued with the conclusion, “The manner of death is thedefileutic complication.”
Furthermore, “The classification of a death as a thedefileutic complication means that the death resulted from a predictable complication of medical therapy.”
