6 results for “c2 vertebral fracture”
75y · Male·bronchopneumonia
… without assistance, despite being advised to use the call bell. A CT scan four days later revealed a C2 vertebral fracture with odontoid process involvement. The coroner found the clinical decision not to image immedia…
83y · Female·Complications arising from a fall with C2 fracture and neck of femur fracture
An 83-year-old woman with dementia, Alzheimer's disease, and a prior hip fracture sustained injuries from a fall in her aged care facility's dining room. Staff were absent from the dining…
95y · Male·bronchopneumonia in a man who has sustained extensive head injury
…at a nursing home. He sustained extensive head injury including subdural and extradural haematoma and C2 vertebral fracture. Despite conservative management due to unfitness for surgery, he developed bronchopneumonia an…
26y · Male·Upper cervical spinal cord injury
A 26-year-old man suffered an upper cervical spinal cord injury (C2 fracture with vertebral artery dissection) after diving head-first from Brooks Jetty into shallow water on New Yea…
65y · Male·Traumatic high cervical spine injury in the setting of frontal head impact in a …
… over the sergeant's leg and fell forward striking his head and face. His pre-existing condition causing vertebral fusion made him highly vulnerable to severe injury from minimal force. The fall caused C2 and C5/6 verte…
48y · Male·Hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy complicating upper cervical spine and cord inju…
…own a gum tree from a cherry picker. Tree branches struck him, causing loss of consciousness and a C2-C3 vertebral fracture with C1-3 spinal cord injury leading to asystolic cardiac arrest. He was airlifted intubated to…
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