Death From Water Intoxication: Estate of Michigan Inmate Sues
Author: Fred Cohen .
Source: Volume 17, Number 03, September/October 2015 , pp.41-42(2)
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Abstract:
The question of deliberate indifference is once again posed when a series of omissions and blunders committed by staff Michigan DOC result in death due excessive consumption of water by a schizophrenic inmate suffering from psychogenic polydipsia.Keywords: Kenneth Dalstra by Personal Representative Debra Scherbinski v. Corrections Officer Palmer, Corrections Officer Summers, Unknown Correction Officers, and Lieutenant McDonald; over-hydration; hyponatremia psychogenic polydipsia
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