Rivers clinic did not follow protocols

The New York outpatient clinic where the late Joan Rivers suffered cardiac arrest did not follow all the standard protocols during the throat procedures it conducted on the comedian, according to a government agency report.

Rivers died on September 4 at the age of 81 in a New York hospital a week after her heart stopped during the outpatient procedure at the Yorkville Endoscopy centre on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

The Centres for Medicare & Medicare Services, the agency that released the report, said that there was no record that staff at the centre weighed the comedian before administering the sedative propofol on August 28 and there were inconsistencies recorded in the dosage of the drug.