89y · Female·Injuries sustained in motor vehicle collision (pedestrian)
…sing Main Road East in St Albans. She sustained multiple rib and pelvic fractures, scapular fracture, and bladder perforation. Initial treatment at Footscray Hospital included fluid resuscitation and blood transfusion. …
72y · Male·Multiple organ failure due to sepsis caused by abdominal adhesions from previous…
Michael Hamilton, 72, presented with acute abdominal pain post-bladder surgery while anticoagulated with warfarin. Initial assessment suspected duodenal perforation based on CT…
66y · Male·sepsis following bacteraemia caused by transurethral catheter insertion
…tment including antibiotics for polymicrobial bacteraemia, he deteriorated and died. The coroner found no bladder perforation. Key clinical lesson: routine catheter replacement at fixed intervals is not evidence-based p…
41y · Female·Peritonitis following surgical procedure to the urinary bladder, due to infected…
Cheryl Lee Edmiston, a healthy 41-year-old woman, died of peritonitis and sepsis following minor bladder procedures (cystoscopy, hydrodilatation, and biopsy) at Joondalup Health Campus on 14 February 2003. The …
67y · Female·perforated sigmoid volvulus with peritonitis upon a background of spinocerebella…
Betty Irene Ball, aged 67, died from perforated sigmoid volvulus with peritonitis on 2 February 2016. She had spinocerebellar ataxia and was resident in aged care. She developed constipation from 15 January 2016, but med…
7y · Female·cardiac tamponade due to total parenteral nutrition fluid leakage into the peric…
A 7-year-old girl with spina bifida died from cardiac tamponade caused by total parenteral nutrition (TPN) fluid leaking into the pericardial sac via a central venous line inserted during bowel obstruction surgery. Clini…
39y · Female·Hypoxic brain injury secondary to multiple hypovolaemic cardiac arrests from cat…
Linda Parker, aged 39, died from hypoxic brain injury following catastrophic postpartum haemorrhage from placenta increta during caesarean delivery. Critical lessons: (1) Placenta increta risk was not detected prenatally…
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