130 results for “frailty”
78y · Female·Blunt force chest injuries from motor vehicle crash, compounded by chronic obstr…
…ant underlying medical conditions: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, malnutrition with cachexia, and frailty. She was admitted to Royal Darwin Hospital for palliative care and died 3 days post-injury. The coroner f…
96y · Female·Decompensated frailty syndrome following right femoral neck fracture from fall
Margaret Wood, a 96-year-old resident of St Ann's aged care facility, died from decompensated frailty syndrome following a fall that resulted in a right femoral neck fracture. She was a frail elderly woman w…
54y · Female·Pneumonia - chest sepsis
…ad experienced recurrent ventilator-associated pneumonia, bronchiectasis, and progressive weight loss and frailty. Despite extensive investigations including ultrasound, CT, and PET scans during her May-June 2023 hospit…
86y · Male·Oesophageal perforation
…d falls on 20 October 2024 and declined post-fall medical assessment and observations. He had progressive frailty, poor oral intake, and recent palliative care discussions. Post-mortem imaging revealed oesophageal perfo…
88y · Male·General frailty and inanition; antecedent conditions: chronic cardiac and renal …
…Jones, aged 88, died in custody at Kevin Waller Aged Care Unit, Long Bay Correctional Centre from general frailty and inanition due to chronic cardiac and renal failure and diabetes. The coroner found he received approp…
100y · Female·frailty and fracture of the right neck of femur
…r. Despite orthopaedic surgery, her condition declined post-operatively and she died on 30 June 2022 from frailty and the hip fracture. The coroner identified that her chair sensor did not activate before the fall, whic…
94y · Male·pneumonia on a background of severe dementia
…ble factors were identified. The death was from natural causes in the context of progressive dementia and frailty.
84y · Male·Chronic small bowel obstruction
…with terminal ileitis. Following earlier hospitalisations where colonoscopy was deemed inadvisable due to frailty and unsuitability for major surgery, he was managed conservatively and palliatively from April 2022 onwar…
86y · Female·Hypostatic pneumonia due to the consequences of a right pubic rami fracture and …
An 86-year-old woman with advanced dementia and frailty suffered an unwitnessed fall at her aged care facility. Initial assessment failed to identify pubic rami …
73y · Female·Open finding - either natural death from medical conditions (hypertension, angin…
Yilmbut Umbul, a 73-year-old Aboriginal woman living at Walmbie Camp near Kalumburu Mission, disappeared in early March 1982. She was frail, with a history of hypertension, angina requiring daily medication, and document…
92y · Female·Complications of congestive cardiac failure (palliated) in an elderly woman with…
This case involves an elderly woman with congestive cardiac failure, intellectual disability, and multiple comorbidities who died in a Department of Human Services residential care facility. In late September 2012, she d…
78y · Male·multi-lobar pneumonia and pleural effusions on a background of urothelial carcin…
…itted to Prince of Wales Hospital on 2 October 2018 after being deemed unsuitable for chemotherapy due to frailty and neutropenia, complicated by an ischaemic stroke. His family requested cessation of active treatment o…
83y · Male·aspiration pneumonia
…th resulted from natural causes precipitated by the fall, surgery, and underlying advanced cancer causing frailty and cachexia.
86y · Male·aspiration pneumonia following injuries sustained in a motor vehicle crash and p…
…, diabetes, hypertension and polycythaemia rubra vera. His hospital course was complicated by progressive frailty, deconditioning, decreased oral intake, and terminal delirium. He died on 27 May 2024 from aspiration pne…
82y · Male·bronchopneumonia
William Garnet Phillips, an 82-year-old widower with cardiac history, died from bronchopneumonia while frail and underweight (58 kg). He lived alone, was socially isolated, and refused all offers of assistance from famil…
89y · Male·unascertained - natural causes
…2022 that resulted in cervical spine fractures. He was deemed unsuitable for surgical intervention due to frailty and comorbidities, and received conservative/palliative management. The coroner found his custodial healt…
92y · Male·Consequences of accidental fall at RACF: post-operative delirium, left femoral i…
A 92-year-old man resident in an aged care facility sustained an unwitnessed fall resulting in left hip fracture, requiring surgical fixation. He developed post-operative delirium and died 8 days later. The coroner ident…
90y · Female·Multiple rib and pelvic fractures due to a fall from a wheelchair on sloping lan…
…lied, only the weaker attendant brakes which cannot hold a wheelchair on slopes; (2) failure to recognise frailty and immobility as key risk factors requiring maximum safety precautions; (3) unsafe placement of a vulner…
76y · Female·Aspiration pneumonia complicating surgery for pelvic and spinal fractures on a b…
A 76-year-old woman died from aspiration pneumonia following surgery for pelvic and spinal fractures sustained in a fall on a shopping centre travelator. She fell when her husband lost control of a shopping trolley with …
73y · Male·Metastatic colon cancer
…y discussion involving oncology, palliative care, and family, a palliative approach was adopted given his frailty. He died peacefully 22 days later. This case highlights the importance of early cancer screening in vulne…
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