Woman on ER floor died from blood clots

Published: July 12, 2008 at 9:41 AM

NEW YORK, July 12 (UPI) -- A mentally ill woman who died on the floor of a New York hospital emergency room was killed by blood cots, medical officials say.

The New York City medical examiner's office said Esmin Green died from clots, generated from in her leg veins from a long period of inactivity, that moved into her lungs, CNN reported Saturday.

Security camera video from June 18 showed Green, a Jamaican immigrant, lying on the floor of Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, after being involuntarily admitted for what the hospital described as "agitation and psychosis." The footage showed hospital employees and other patients passing her by without helping, CNN said.

The broadcaster said Green's blood clots came from deep vein thrombosis, which complicated her chronic paranoid schizophrenia.

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