The patient was unattended and bled from the site of his kidney dialysis shunt, the examiner said.

These conditions include renal dialysis shunt, cerebrospinal fluid shunt, vascular graft, immunosuppression secondary to cancer and cancer chemotherapy, systemic lupus erythematosus, and type 1 diabetes mellitus.

State Health Department investigators are examining two recent patient deaths, one in which a man with a kidney dialysis shunt bled to death in a shower and another in which a patient died after falling out of his bed.