Joan Rivers’ death “resulted from a predictable complication of medical therapy,” the New York medical examiner’s office concluded Thursday after an autopsy of the comedian, who died last month after she stopped breathing during an outpatient surgery. Her cause of death was “anoxic encephalopathy due to hypoxic arrest” during the Aug. 28 procedure, the medical examiner’s office said. That means her brain was not receiving enough oxygen. Rivers was sedated with propofol during the procedure -- a laryngoscopy and upper gastrointestinal endoscopy that was intended to evaluate voice changes and gastroesophageal reflux disease, the office said. Read more http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/gossip/la-et-mg-joan-rivers-autopsy-20141016-story.html
