A Pennsylvania hospital must release the redacted medical records of about 10 emergency room patients who were equipped to heart monitors on the night a heart transplant patient died from heart complications after being treated at the hospital, a Lackawanna County judge has ruled.
The estate of Jessica Reap, who was 21 when she died, requested the records to establish the conditions and symptoms of the Mercy Hospital patients who did have heart monitors after Reap was told she could not be placed on a heart monitor because all of them were in use when she arrived at Mercy complaining of cardiac symptoms. The records would be redacted to not include names and Social Security numbers, the opinion said.
