FOOTBALL PLAYER MAY HAVE DIED FROM GAME INJURY, AUTOPSY SAYS.Byline: Jaxon Van Derbeken Daily News Staff Writer A Reseda High School Reseda High School, established in 1955, is located in the Reseda section of Los Angeles, California, United States. The current principal of Reseda High is Alfredo Tarin. The mascot of Reseda High is the Regent, a lion welding a crown and a scepter. football player who died after a Sept. 12 game suffered a massive brain hemorrhage hemorrhage (hĕm`ərĭj), escape of blood from the circulation (arteries, veins, capillaries) to the internal or external tissues. The term is usually applied to a loss of blood that is copious enough to threaten health or life. that could have been caused by a blow to the head during the game, coroner's officials said Friday. An autopsy determined that Eric Michael Hoggatt, 18, was killed by extensive bleeding within his skull and swelling of the brain. The skull was not fractured. Toxicology toxicology, study of poisons, or toxins, from the standpoint of detection, isolation, identification, and determination of their effects on the human body. Toxicology may be considered the branch of pharmacology devoted to the study of the poisonous effects of drugs. tests showed no evidence of drugs. Coroner's spokesman Scott Carrier Scott Carrier is an American author and radio producer. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. Written work
``He got hit hard. He apparently got struck or struck somebody, and it could have caused the hemorrhaging,'' Carrier said. ``It is a bleeding of the small veins over the surface of the brain.'' Hoggatt died in his sleep after taking the bus home from his team's season opener. With two minutes left in the game, he had to be helped off the field after making a tackle to stop a touchdown. An attorney for Hoggatt's family said Friday that the autopsy results affirm the family's key complaint: that coaches and the team doctor failed to diagnose the boy's condition. ``Both the (school) district, through the coaching personnel, and the physician failed to cause adequate treatment, and that caused his death. The failure to do that caused him to die,'' said attorney Martha Woliung. The team doctor did not return calls for comment Friday. Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. officials have said that Hoggatt was taken out of the game under doctor's orders "Doctor's Orders" is the title of an episode from the third season of the television series . Its episode number is 068, and it first aired on 18 February 2004. Plot summary This is a summary of the beginning portion of the episode. because of exhaustion Exhaustion Situation in which a majority of participants trading in the same asset are either long or short, leaving few investors to take the other side of the transaction when participants wish to close their positions. , and that he never complained of any specific injury. But the family contends that Hoggatt told teammates, coaches and the team doctor that his fingers and legs were tingling tin·gle v. tin·gled, tin·gling, tin·gles v.intr. 1. To have a prickling, stinging sensation, as from cold, a sharp slap, or excitement: tingled all over with joy. - which the lawyer said is an indicator of possible head injury. ``I'm just really angry about how they handled it,'' Eric's mother, Verna Hoggatt said. ``My son could have been here today if he (had) the proper medical attention. I think that I should have been notified that he was complaining of numbness numbness /numb·ness/ (num´nes) anesthesia (1). Numbness Loss of feeling or sensation. Mentioned in: Topical Anesthesia in his fingers and his legs - I would have been more prepared,'' she said. Reseda High officials - who declined to comment Friday on the autopsy results - referred to a school district statement calling Hoggatt's death a ``sad and tragic event.'' ``He is greatly missed by the Reseda High School student body, faculty and administrators and particularly by his coaches and teammates on the football and basketball teams,'' the district said in a statement Friday. ``The school shares in his family's mourning MOURNING. This word has several significations. 1. It is the apparel worn at funerals, and for a time afterwards, in order to manifest grief for the death of some one, and to honor his memory. 2. The expenses paid for such apparel. 2. .'' Hoggatt's twin brother, Michael, and sister Julia, have enrolled at Reseda in honor of their late brother. Days after his death, officials with the Coroner's Office said preliminary autopsy results were inconclusive INCONCLUSIVE. What does not put an end to a thing. Inconclusive presumptions are those which may be overcome by opposing proof; for example, the law presumes that he who possesses personal property is the owner of it, but evidence is allowed to contradict this presumption, and show who is , and they ordered a battery of tests. The results released Friday were based on neuropathology neuropathology /neu·ro·pa·thol·o·gy/ (-pah-thol´ah-je) pathology of diseases of the nervous system. neu·ro·pa·thol·o·gy n. The study of diseases of the nervous system. tests on the brain and spinal cord spinal cord, the part of the nervous system occupying the hollow interior (vertebral canal) of the series of vertebrae that form the spinal column, technically known as the vertebral column. , Carrier said. Toxicology tests, that Carrier said were routine because of Hoggatt's age and the circumstances of his death, found no signs of drugs or alcohol. Woliung said the family was considering a lawsuit against the school district based on the coroner's findings. ``They've indicated that the cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head, causing bleeding during playing football,'' she said. ``It means we are going to proceed on the Hoggatt family's behalf.'' School and district officials said Hoggatt, who passed a physical three weeks before the team's opener, left the Sept. 12 game against Chatsworth High with 2 minutes, 41 seconds remaining in the game. Shortly before coming out of the game, Hoggatt ran nearly 70 yards down the field to make a 5-yard-line tackle to prevent a touchdown. After Hoggatt said he did not want to go back in, a doctor examined him and ordered him not to return, school officials said. The day Hoggatt was found dead, school officials issued a memo to the school staff indicating that a doctor examined him, found nothing wrong, but told him not to return for the last two minutes of a losing game. ``Prior to getting on the bus, and after he came out of the game, with about two minutes remaining, he had conversations with coaches and the team doctors,'' Principal Robert Kladifko said in a memo. ``He gave no indication of any physical problems, except exhaustion from playing a terrific game.'' Woliung, the Hoggatt family attorney, accused the school of releasing ``very self-serving information.'' ``Frankly, if I was a parent of someone on that team, I don't think I would appreciate that kind of information,'' she said. ``I think these people have a right to know what happened.'' CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: (color) Eric Michael Hoggatt Suffered brain hemorrha ge |
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