Deceased
Collin Ernest Eldridge
Demographics
77y, male
Date of death
1999-08-12
Finding date
2003-03-24
Cause of death
multi-organ failure secondary to myocardial infarction
AI-generated summary
A 77-year-old man admitted to a nursing home after hip replacement surgery for a fractured neck of femur died from multi-organ failure secondary to myocardial infarction. He had multiple comorbidities including diabetes, hypertension, ischaemic heart disease, and heart failure. Pressure ulcers developed during his initial hospital stay and became colonised with MRSA. The coroner found that the MRSA infection was not a substantial contributor to death and that decline was the natural progression of chronic degenerative arterial disease. No evidence supported that care at the nursing home contributed to his death. The recent myocardial infarction days before death was the immediate cause, with his multiple organ diseases making death inevitable.
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Procedures
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