Coronial

30 results for brain contusions

TAShospital2018-11-19

Coroner's Finding: Williams, Michael David

29y · Male·Head injury following an assault; subdural haemorrhage, cerebral contusions and …

…h severe head trauma. Mr Williams suffered multiple head injuries causing subdural haemorrhage, cerebral contusions and cerebral oedema, losing consciousness before arriving at hospital. He died during emergency surgery.…

emergency medicineneurosurgery
TAShome2022-05-18

Coroner's Finding: Masters, Shane Anthony

40y · Male·Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) resulting from post-traumatic brain …

…Masters died from Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) 12 years after sustaining a severe traumatic brain injury at work. On 19 May 2008, a hydraulic jack dislodged while repairing a fully loaded truck in a works…

neurosurgeryrehabilitation medicinesystemprocedural
TAS2026-03-23

Coroner's Finding: Garcia, Adrian Walter

51y · Male·Traumatic brain injuries resulting from blunt head trauma: multiple calvarial an…

Adrian Garcia, 51, died from traumatic brain injuries sustained during an assault in a public park in Sorell, Tasmania on 10 March 2021. He was heavily…

neurosurgeryintensive care
TAShome2024-09-19

Coroner's Finding: Wright, Ronald James

81y · Male·Pulmonary thromboembolism as a result of multiple traumatic injuries caused by a…

… top rung, which bore a warning label. He sustained multiple traumatic injuries including skull fractures, brain contusions, subdural haematoma, subarachnoid haemorrhage, and pelvic and arm fractures. After 12 days of i…

trauma surgeryintensive caresystem
SAhospital2005-04-12

Coroner's Finding: KARTINYERI Richard John

60y · Male·respiratory failure and sepsis complicating acute subdural haematoma

…ng vehicle during a police pursuit. He sustained a severe right-sided acute subdural haematoma, cerebral contusions and skull fractures requiring emergency neurosurgery. Post-operative complications including raised intr…

neurosurgeryintensive caremorphine
QLDhome2012-06-29

MacNicol, Jack Wallace

15y · Male·head injury from motorcycle accident resulting in extensive brain injury and bas…

…met. He suffered a severe head injury with base of skull fracture, extensive subarachnoid haemorrhage, and brain contusions. Despite immediate first aid, emergency response, and transfer to a tertiary hospital with mech…

emergency medicineneurosurgerysystem
WAcommunity2003-05-30

Inquest into the Death of Sandra Honey

56y · Female·Multiple injuries including small and large bowel damage, mesenteric damage with…

…ks earlier that day. The vehicle collided with a tree. She sustained bowel and mesenteric injuries, lung contusions, and internal bleeding. Despite emergency surgery at Bunbury Regional Hospital and intensive care at Sir…

trauma surgeryintensive caresystem
NThospital2004-02-16

Inquest into the death of Maxwell Murphy

28y · Male·Cerebral contusions and fractured skull following a blow to the back of the head

Maxwell Theo Murphy, aged 28, died from cerebral contusions and a fractured skull sustained during a physical altercation on 10 January 2002. He was punched in the …

forensic medicineemergency medicine
QLDcommunity2017-03-24

Jensen, Ian Christoffer and Kepui, Timothy Ponde

Ian Christoffer Jensen: cerebral contusions and lacerations due to skull fractur…

Two cyclists died in separate collision incidents with motor vehicles in Bundaberg, Queensland. The primary cause in both cases was driver inattention and failure to keep proper lookout. In Mr Jensen's case, the truck's …

diagnosticcommunication
SAhospital2025-05-20

Coroner's Finding: Lane, Kevin Roy

81y · Male·inanition complicating traumatic brain injury and disseminated malignancy

An 81-year-old man with metastatic bowel cancer suffered a traumatic brain injury from a fall, resulting in multiple intracerebral haemorrhages and cerebral contusions. He was delir…

neurosurgerygeneral medicine
WAhospital2013

Inquest into the Death of Trinh, Anh Thuy

55y · Female·Traumatic brain injury

This finding concerns a fatal motor vehicle accident resulting in traumatic brain injury. A 55-year-old woman was struck by a vehicle while crossing the street after exiting a bus. She suf…

emergency medicineneurosurgeryhydroxychloroquine
QLDhospital2014-04-02

Zessin, Ralph Frederick

67y · Male·Raised intracranial pressure due to head injuries from a fall

…on. He fell onto a concrete footpath and struck his head, suffering subdural and subarachnoid haemorrhage, brain contusions, and raised intracranial pressure. Despite maximal ICU support including intracranial pressure …

neurosurgeryintensive care
SAhospital2002-07-05

Coroner's Finding: BARBER Jason Troy

20y · Male·Closed head injury

…annabis. He collided at speed with another vehicle while running a red light, sustaining massive traumatic brain injury with subarachnoid haemorrhage, cerebral contusions, diffuse axonal injury and brain stem haemorrhag…

trauma surgeryneurosurgeryalcohol
NThospital2007-03-16

Inquest into the death of Jason Donald

33y · Male·Multiple injuries sustained in a single vehicle crash, complicated by acalculous…

…ff the Stuart Highway, sustaining severe traumatic injuries including closed head injury, bilateral lung contusions, complex femur fracture and flail chest. Initial hospital care was appropriate with initial improvement,…

intensive caretrauma surgery
TAS2025-10-27

Coroner's Finding: Curtis, John Anthony

36y · Male·Traumatic brain injury, spinal cord infarction at level T6-conus and recurrent p…

…as legally required and lacked vigilance in checking for oncoming traffic. The deceased suffered traumatic brain injury, spinal cord infarction, and multiple thoracic injuries including transected aorta and ruptured dia…

SAcommunity2002-03-07

Coroner's Finding: GIBBONS Leith

17y · Male·incineration

A 17-year-old male died from incineration following a motor vehicle accident on 23 November 2000. The vehicle failed to negotiate a curve, left the road and struck a tree. The driver had bilateral lower limb fractures an…

forensic medicineemergency medicine
NSW2016-09-14

Inquest into the death of Rodney James BATES

55y · Male·Traumatic brain injury caused by blunt force to the head sustained in a fall

Rodney Bates, a 55-year-old in custody at Cessnock Correctional Centre, died from traumatic brain injury sustained in a fall on 2 April 2015. He had experienced recurrent unexplained loss of consciousness…

neurosurgeryneurologymethadone
VIC2015-05-03

Finding into death of Courtney Faith Keast

12y · Female·Head injury

Courtney Keast, age 12, died from catastrophic head injury sustained in a boat collision at Lake Eppalock. She was struck by another vessel while sitting in the back of a ski boat. Both operators were experienced, licens…

VIChospital2016-05-17

Finding into death of Trendafil Petrovski

78y · Male·head injury sustained when struck by a car

…g a street in Sydenham. He sustained severe head injury with bilateral frontal and temporal haemorrhagic contusions and skull fractures. Despite emergency transport to Royal Melbourne Hospital, neurosurgery, craniotomy a…

trauma surgeryneurosurgerymorphine
NThospital2015-07-31

Inquest into the death of Dennis Wurramarrba

28y · Male·Multiple injuries following a motor vehicle crash while concurrently suffering f…

A 28-year-old Aboriginal man died from severe traumatic brain injury following a high-speed motor vehicle crash. He was unlicensed, driving another's vehicle, and had a…

general surgeryneurosurgeryalcohol

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