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6 results for cervical fusion

VIChospital2016-02-17

Finding into death of Geoffrey Power

54y · Male·Complications of cervical spinal stenosis treated with cervical laminectomy and …

…vere intellectual disability, blindness, and perinatal hypoxic-ischemic brain injury, underwent indicated cervical laminectomy and fusion for cervical stenosis. Post-operatively, he self-removed a drainage tube, then dev…

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NSW2020-02-05

Inquest into the death of Francis McCann

49y · Male·complications of a cervical spine injury

…hrenia, anxiety, and self-harm, fell from his bed during sleep on 24 September 2017, sustaining a serious cervical spine injury (C4-C5 with canal stenosis). He lay on the floor for over 9 hours before discovery. Although…

orthopaedic surgeryneurosurgery
VICcommunity2020-06-17

Finding into death of Pierino Taranto

65y · Male·Traumatic high cervical spine injury in the setting of frontal head impact in a …

A 65-year-old man with ankylosing spondylitis died from traumatic cervical spine injury after being arrested for public drunkenness by a single-officer police patrol. During arrest…

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TAShospital2019-07-25

Coroner's Finding: Horcicka, Josef Vratislav

89y · Male·fractured cervical spine (C5 inferior articular process fracture) due to unwitne…

An 89-year-old man with Parkinson's disease fell at home on 16 August 2016, sustaining a cervical spine fracture. Initial CT imaging missed the C5 inferior articular process fracture, reporting only a pa…

orthopaedic surgeryemergency medicinediagnosticproceduralmorphine
VIC2022-02-03

Finding into death of Wayne Myhill

54y · Male·Neck injuries sustained in a fall - fracture of the fifth cervical vertebra (car…

Wayne Myhill, aged 54, died from a cervical spine fracture (C5 level) sustained in a fall at his group home in Ararat, Victoria. He had cerebral pals…

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VIChospital2023-07-19

Finding into death of Daryl William Nioa

74y · Male·Pulmonary thromboembolism secondary to deep vein thrombosis in the setting of re…

A 74-year-old man died from pulmonary thromboembolism secondary to deep vein thrombosis following a cervical spinal fracture. He presented to rural ED with mental health concerns, was restrained by security guards …

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