PEA means pulseless electrical activity or no heart beat but continued brain activity.
Some three hours later, while under Gilbert's care, Hudon suffered a cardiac arrest, the first of four that night. Ponsor told the jurors that a definition of medical abbreviations are among the voluminous amounts of paper that serve as exhibits. The definitions were included in a summary of medical records prepared by Anita Sarro, an attorney and nurse who worked on Gilbert's defense. Yet news of the query, the first from the jurors who sat through 13 weeks of testimony that include medical experts, drew several onlookers who filled three rows in the fifth-floor courtroom. Several family members have maintained a verdict watch, which began Feb. 23.