Beloved star ignored doctor’s warning before fateful trip to Italy, and then he checked into a hotel that wasn’t equipped with a defibrillator that could have saved his life.
Sources say James Gandolfini lay on the bathroom floor of his hotel suite in Rome for more than 30 minutes before medical help arrived. But by then, it was too late. The man the world knew as TV’s greatest mob boss, Tony Soprano, was dead.
“He absolutely may have survived if hotel personnel had used an AED (automated external defibrillator) when they found him,” according to Dr. Matthew Budoff, who has not treated Gandolfini but is an associate professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine UCLA and a renowned cardiologist.
SOURCE: National Enquirer