Finding into death of EMILIO VILLANUEVA

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An 87-year-old man with multiple comorbidities including previous strokes, atrial fibrillation, and diabetes died from acute renal failure and two major haemorrhagic strokes after three months in an aged care facility. During his stay at Plumpton Villa, he suffered two falls and sustained a significant thermal burn to his arm from a wall heater, and developed aspiration pneumonia. The coroner found deficiencies in the facility's management including failure to implement recommended fall prevention measures following an unwitnessed fall, failure to manage wandering behaviours despite high-risk assessment, inadequate assessment of the serious burn injury and potential head trauma, failure to identify diabetes as an active diagnosis, and inconsistent blood glucose monitoring. However, the coroner concluded the death resulted from natural causes unrelated to identified care deficiencies. Plumpton Villa subsequently implemented improvements including heater temperature restrictions, updated care plan documentation, and enhanced diabetic care protocols with new resident living profile forms.

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