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Your father was having trouble with a very basic system crucial to his life, and that is his electrolytes. There are many many reasons that sodium or potassium or other elements crucial to life may become either too high or too low, but basically your father entered hospitalization with a life threatening condition they were attempting to treat. He instead died.
Treatment doesn't = life.
Treatment ='s an ATTEMPT to save a life.
Your father's doctors are the best guessers over what MAY HAVE (because certainty is impossible here) led to your dad's death.
There are 100s of crisis conditions that may lead to hyponatremia (low sodium). Among them are diuretics and other drugs and kidneys that are weakened or malfunctioning. Sometimes nausea and vomitting place a part.
You may never get a "for sure" answer here and this may always be somewhat a mystery.
You do not tell us a crucial thing here: While we understand that you father has been ill for some time, needing artificially introduced (and sometimes inadequate) nutritional replacement by tube, we do not know his over all age. It will be a major factor in fighting a crisis illness.
I am sorry your father didn't make it. We often want "answers" or places to lay blame when we lose a love one. Anger is easier to face than grief and sadness. This is recognized by grief counselors as a normal human reaction.
Your Dad is a peace now, and out of pain, find peace in that.
It sounds like your dad had a lot of ongoing health issues that the hospital was trying to treat as they arose. And the fact that he turned yellow means that he was jaundice and that his liver wasn't working properly.
Nothing you wrote sounded suspicious to me, as your dad was obviously very sick. Hopefully once you and your mom can read the full report you will have peace about your dads death.
Praying for God's peace, comfort, and strength to be with you in the days, weeks and months ahead.