Miller Gardner could have died within ‘minutes’, says Doctor
After the 14-year-old Miller GardnerThe son of the former New York Yankees -star Brett GardnerWas ruled to have died due to carbon monoxide poisoning, an expert explained how it could have happened.
“If exposure to carbon monoxide is not reversed, the person can die in less than 10 minutes due to brain bleeding, irreversible damage to these cells and other cells very sensitive to oxygen deprivation, such as those in the heart,” ” Dr. Maikel Vargas-SanabriaProfessor at the University of Costa Rica, exclusively told US Weekly on Wednesday 2 April. “This ultimately leads to a closure of vital functions and cardi -spiratory arrest.”
Vargas-Sanabria, who is not associated with the case, explained that carbon monoxide goes directly into the bloodstream after the lungs of an individual penetrate, which blocks the transport of oxygen.
“As a result, the oxygen that enters the lungs cannot reach the cells because it cannot be transported by the blood,” said the forensic pathologist. “This leads to chemical suffocation, and within a few minutes – sometimes less than a minute – people start to feel sleepy, start to fall asleep and after a few minutes of die brain cells start to die, they start studying.”
The Costa Rican Judicial Investigative Agency (OIJ) confirmed the cause of death of Miller on Wednesday in a statement US Weekly.
“In the Carboxyhemoglobinet test, a saturation level of 64 percent was found,” the general director of OIJ Randall Zúñiga said. “In such cases, when concentrations are larger than 50 percent carboxyhemoglobin, this is considered deadly. In this specific case, with a saturation of 64 percent, the level is clearly well above that deadly threshold.”
He continued: “That is why this confirms the police hypothesis that was caused by exposure to toxic gases, in particular carbon monoxide. This is how the case is practically closed. The only step remaining is for the toxicological report of the OIJ Forensic Sciences Department to be forwarded to the Autopidic Medicine Department.
During Miller’s autopsy, Zúñiga reported that “a very specific layer” was found on Miller’s organs that forms when “a person dies due to carbon monoxide poisoning or gas inading.”
After the OIJ reported on Monday 31 March that “high levels” of carbon monoxide were found in Miller’s hotel room in the resort Arenas del Mar Beachfront & Rainforest, the hotel pushed back in the office’s report.
The family of 14-year-old Miller Gardner, who suddenly died earlier this month, will honor his legacy through an organization close to the hearts of the family. In a death notice published in Charleston, South Carolina’s Post and Courier on Saturday, March 29, the former New York Yankees star Brett Gardner and his family asked to make memorial donations […]
“We understand that concern has grown and to clarify that the high degree of carbon monoxide was in a mechanical room that guests did not occupy,” Dana CohenSpokesperson for the Arenas del Mar Beachfront & Rainforest Resort, said in a statement US Weekly on Tuesday 1 April. “The levels in the hotel room did not exist and non-decisive. There was an error in this first report. As mentioned, we are waiting for convincing results to confirm the cause of this unfortunate death.”
US Weekly has contacted the resort for a new comment about the final cause of the death of the OIJ.
Miller was found dead on March 21 in his hotel room while he was on vacation with his family, including his father, his mother, Jessicaand his older brother, Hunter.
With reporting by Alejandra Araya Rojas
