The gravol injection administered to toddler Nicholas Cox couldn’t have caused him to stop breathing, according to the doctor’s report given to Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), which is being accused of overdosing him and causing him brain damage.
On Thursday, the hospital released the doctor’s report on Cox, which confirmed that he has sustained diffuse hypoxic ischemic brain injury, which occurs after prolonged reduced oxygen supply induces neuronal cell death. The report does not, however, state conclusively what caused the child’s cardiopulmonary arrest (the combination of cardiac arrest and respiratory arrest) or what caused subsequent gastrointestinal bleeding for almost two weeks after he was admitted as a patient.
Cox, who was discharged from the hospital on Tuesday after more than a month as a patient, was
