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20y · Female·Head injuries due to or as a consequence of motor vehicle accident
Chloe Louise Shelley, aged 20, died from head injuries sustained in a motor vehicle crash on 9 February 2007, succumbing to her injuries on 5 April 2007. The driver, Ms Angela Connor, was travelling faster than the speed…
28y · Male·hypovolemia secondary to haemorrhage from operative exploration of multiple stab…
A 28-year-old Aboriginal male died from hypovolemic shock following operative exploration of multiple stab wounds to the thigh. The death was preventable. Critical failures included: delayed surgery from Friday to Saturd…
80y · Female·Pulmonary Thromboembolism in a woman with Left Femur Fracture
Sheila Margaret Frith, 80, sustained a left femur fracture after falling at the top of an escalator at an immigration office on 4 July 2005. She was admitted to Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital for urgent surgical repair. H…
67y · Male·undetermined; likely exposure and dehydration
David William Mather, a 67-year-old homeless man, was admitted to Royal Darwin Hospital on 29 September 2003 with a displaced compound fracture of the left humerus. He left the ward on 4 October 2003 in hospital pyjamas,…
31y · Male·Injuries sustained as a consequence of helicopter crash into water
Three emergency service personnel—pilot Andrew Carpenter (31), paramedic Craig Liddington (31), and crewman Stewart Eva (31)—died in a helicopter crash on 17 October 2003 during a night VFR flight to retrieve a patient w…
35y · Male·pulmonary thromboembolism due to left deep calf vein thrombosis complicating lef…
John Matthew Murray, aged 35, died of pulmonary thromboembolism complicating pelvic and leg fractures sustained in a motorcycle accident. He was admitted to Royal Adelaide Hospital and underwent extensive orthopaedic sur…
90y · Female·Intracerebral haemorrhage
Zenobia Enid Sweet, a 90-year-old woman with mild dementia, was admitted to Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in April 2002 for surgical repair of a fractured femur. She was rehabilitating on Ward G51 (orthopaedics) with a g…
42y · Male·Pulmonary thromboembolism
Peter Sullivan, a 42-year-old carpenter, died from pulmonary embolism on 6 July 1998, three days after surgery at Box Hill Hospital to remove a nail from his left thigh sustained in a work-related nail gun injury. He dev…
40y · Male·Complications following fracture of the pelvis
David Stanley William Poole, a 40-year-old crane operator, fell from a mobile crane carrier approximately 1.6 metres to the ground while attempting to correct the positioning of packing timbers on the crane deck on 5 Apr…
25y · Male·positional asphyxia in a man with extensive old hypoxic brain damage, acute ches…
Corey Paddy, a 25-year-old Aboriginal man with severe hypoxic brain injury from a 1998 car accident, died at Katherine Hospital from positional asphyxia while receiving concurrent morphine therapy and suffering from acut…
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