12 results for “back injury and disability”
72y · Male·asphyxia due to upper airway obstruction due to choking on food
A 72-year-old man with acquired brain injury, seizure disorder, and dysphasia died from asphyxia due to choking on food while eating eggs and ham on to…
64y · Male·Aspiration pneumonia in a man with dysphagia and acquired brain injury
John Gale, a 64-year-old man with acquired brain injury and severe intellectual disability living in state care, died from aspiration pneumonia following a fall a…
70y · Male·Congestive cardiac failure in a man with ischaemic and hypertensive heart diseas…
David McDermott, a 70-year-old man with intellectual disability in supported residential care, died from congestive cardiac failure secondary to ischaemic and hypertens…
39y · Female·Sepsis and renal failure secondary to a perinephric abscess
A 39-year-old woman with quadriplegia, cerebral palsy, and epilepsy residing in supported accommodation developed a perinephric abscess detected when staff noticed a …
52y · Male·gunshot injury to the head
Michael John Lowry, a 52-year-old hotel licensee and political candidate, was shot once in the left side of the head on 18 January 2001 at his hotel. He was tra…
63y · Male·Unknown
…ydale railway station. He had recently self-discharged from psychiatric admission for endogenous depression and suicidal ideation. Despite extensive police investigations over 46 years, his body was never found and caus…
67y · Male·Complications of pressure ulcers in the setting of a thoracic vertebral fracture…
Michael Young, 67, died from pressure ulcer complications following a spinal injury sustained during a CT scan on 3 January 2023. He had fallen from his wheelchair at home and presented to E…
3y · Male·Complications of severe ischaemic/hypoxic brain injury
A 3-year-old boy with severe hypoxic-ischaemic brain injury from non-accidental trauma sustained at 2 months of age died from complications of that injury while in st…
52y · Female·Renal Failure Complicating Urosepsis in a Woman with Down Syndrome (Palliated)
Lee Isabell Mills, a 52-year-old woman with Down syndrome, chronic renal failure, and requiring permanent catheterisation, developed urosepsis following a urinary tract infection. She presented…
38y · Female·Multiple injuries sustained when struck by a train
Natasha Stojkoski, a 38-year-old sales assistant at The Good Guys, sustained a workplace injury in October 2018 involving a Work Assisted Vehicle incident affecting her back, shoulders and neck. Subsequ…
40y · Male·cardiac arrhythmia caused by atherosclerotic and hypertensive cardiovascular dis…
Brendan Triffett, aged 40 years with significant acquired brain injury from a past drug overdose, multiple comorbidities including morbid obesity, epilepsy, emphysema and athero…
0y · Male·complications of head injury
…tal on 15 February 2014. The father had a well-documented history of violence, substance abuse, criminality and had been in Department of Child Protection care. Pre-birth planning was delayed due to late referral and co…
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