Joan Rivers' Death Preventable, Doctors Did Not Immediately Resusciate And Call 911

Joan Rivers' untimely death is still hard to accept. A new report claims that had her two throat specialists started CPR the moment she went into shock and called 911, the legendary comedienne just might be alive today.

Page Six reports that the 81-year old E talk show host was not given the immediate care she needed when she first went into shock. Instead, interviews, confidential EMT records as well as a federal report showed that Joan's doctors wasted a lot of precious minutes when her pulse and blood pressure plummeted. Those minutes could have been used to give her some CPR and call 911. However, Dr. Lawrence Cohen and Rivers' Ear, Nose, and Throat specialist, Dr. Gwen Korovin used up 14 minutes to continue scoping procedures on her larynx. They further wasted 10 more minutes to carry out their own ineffective resuscitation attempts before dialing 911. Which, as the whole world knows, turned out to be too late.

An insider shared that when the medical experts arrived at the Upper East Side clinic on 9:47 a.m of Aug. 28, the host already has no heartbeat and pulse. She was not breathing anymore. "She had cyanosis around the lips and the mouth - that's when your lips turn blue from lack of oxygen," said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "That takes several minutes without oxygen."

Even though the two medics plus two emergency medical technicians who worked on Rivers restarted her heart and got oxygen into her lungs using the tracheal tube and bag-valve mask, Rivers' brain has already been deprived of oxygen for far too long. Because it took more than the 5-minute cut off for brain damage, Joan went to coma and died the week after. According to the insider, had the throat procedure been suspended immediately and the doctors started resuscitation immediately and carried out an emergency tracheotomy if there was any obstruction, the host could still be alive. Unfortunately, the doctors did not and the family she left behind is now missing her terribly. Her daughter, Melissa Rivers recently shared of the sadness she felt for the first time she spent Thanksgiving without her mom by her side. Hollywood Life reported that Melissan Rivers misses how her mom used to hustle and bustle during Thanksgiving, which was by far, the late comedienne's favorite time of the year. Joan is remembered for using the day to give back to the community by throwing a Turkey day party and doing "hours of service delivering food to those in need."