17 results for “cardiac abscess”
86y · Male·Sepsis associated with a pericolic abscess, complicated by terminal large intest…
An 86-year-old life-sentenced prisoner died from sepsis associated with a pericolic abscess complicated by terminal gastrointestinal haemorrhage. He had extensive comorbidities including bilateral …
90y · Female·abdominal sepsis complicating perforated diverticular abscess of the sigmoid col…
… 90-year-old woman from rural Victoria, died from abdominal sepsis complicating a perforated diverticular abscess. She presented with bowel obstruction requiring laparotomy on 21 October 2019, was discharged on 30 Octob…
76y · Male·Sepsis due to pulmonary valve endocarditis and cardiac abscess due to Staphyloco…
A 76-year-old man died from sepsis caused by Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis and cardiac abscess. An intravenous cannula inserted during day surgery on 29 November 2018 was not removed before di…
12y · Female·Hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy complicating an aortic root abscess (operated) …
…ood culture results (1:22am) and medical notification (10:49am); failure to consider endocarditis despite cardiac history in her father; and reliance on facsimile as sole communication method. The child developed an aor…
45y · Male·sepsis with infective endocarditis, right lobar pneumonia (with abscess formatio…
…iabetes, and recent pneumonia died from sepsis with infective endocarditis and right lobar pneumonia with abscess. He discharged himself from hospital against medical advice on the day of death after exhibiting disrupti…
31y · Male·Upper airway obstruction due to pharyngeal abscess caused by dental abscess, whi…
Karl Scholz, 31-year-old male, died from upper airway obstruction due to pharyngeal abscess originating from untreated dental infection. He presented with severe facial cellulitis and abscess follo…
22y · Male·Airway obstruction due to laryngeal abscess and laryngeal chondronecrosis due to…
Kyle Gallagher, age 22, died from airway obstruction due to laryngeal abscess and chondronecrosis following a motorcycle accident. A CT scan on 13 July 2023 showed a critically narrow…
49y · Female·Hypoxia due to complications following incision and drainage of a right buttock …
…emic heart disease) died following complications of anaesthesia during incision and drainage of a buttock abscess. Critical failures included: inadequate reversal of neuromuscular blockade (Train of Four monitor not cal…
93y · Male·Complications following colectomy for Clostridium difficile pancolitis in the se…
A 93-year-old man with a history of antibiotic use for a neck abscess developed diarrhoea during hospitalisation. Despite testing negative for Clostridium difficile at St Vinc…
70y · Male·Congestive cardiac failure in a man with ischaemic and hypertensive heart diseas…
…rmott, a 70-year-old man with intellectual disability in supported residential care, died from congestive cardiac failure secondary to ischaemic and hypertensive heart disease. He was admitted to hospital with sepsis an…
54y · Male·Complications of cervical spinal stenosis treated with cervical laminectomy and …
Geoffrey Power, aged 54, with severe intellectual disability, blindness, and perinatal hypoxic-ischemic brain injury, underwent indicated cervical laminectomy and fusion for cervical stenosis. Post-operatively, he self-r…
46y · Female·Complications following cardiorespiratory arrest in association with an air embo…
…cumenting her as 'stable'. On 12 November, critical observations showing respiratory distress (RR 40) and cardiac decompensation were not escalated—no MET call was made despite meeting criteria. The surgeon did not revi…
69y · Male·Intracerebral haemorrhage due to sepsis (Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia), com…
…achycardia and elevated troponin. The treating doctor diagnosed NSTEMI based on the elevated troponin and cardiac history, administering aspirin, clopidogrel and enoxaparin. However, the patient had concurrent sepsis (S…
33y · Male·Prolonged epileptic seizure resulting in gastric content aspiration and cardiac …
…man, died at Long Bay Correctional Complex from a prolonged epileptic seizure resulting in aspiration and cardiac arrest. He had experienced three prior seizure-like episodes in April-May 2019, all undiagnosed. Each tim…
63y · Male·pneumonia complicating anoxic brain injury, due to post-operative haemorrhage as…
…ollow-up. A CT pulmonary angiogram was pursued despite low clinical probability, delaying diagnosis until cardiac arrest occurred. Earlier recognition of haemorrhage, timely blood investigations, and appropriate escalat…
24y · Male·Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy, due to or as a consequence of cardiac arrest, …
Hamid Khazaei, an Iranian asylum seeker aged 24, died on 5 September 2014 after contracting a leg infection (Chromobacterium violaceum) on Manus Island while in immigration detention. His death was preventable and result…
12y · Female·acute septicaemia resulting from osteomyelitis of the left femur
A 12-year-old Aboriginal girl died from septicaemia caused by untreated osteomyelitis of the left femur. Three weeks after a sports injury, despite evidence of severe and deteriorating illness including inability to walk…
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