15 results for “limb fractures”
17y · Male·incineration
…0. The vehicle failed to negotiate a curve, left the road and struck a tree. The driver had bilateral lower limb fractures and severe head injuries causing immediate unconsciousness. Witnesses made desperate rescue attem…
65y · Male·Multi-organ failure in a man with an ischaemic right leg treated with opioids
…Mental Health Act detention for safety. His condition deteriorated with concurrent pulmonary oedema, rib fractures, and progressive respiratory failure leading to multi-organ failure. The coroner found the death was fro…
40y · Male·lower limb and chest injuries sustained in motor vehicle collision, including mu…
…onsumed alcohol; Mr Streets had traces of THC in his body. The fatal injuries included multiple compound fractures of the right leg, left pneumothorax, and bilateral anterior upper rib fractures. Significantly, autopsy …
89y · Female·Multiple injuries sustained in a motor vehicle collision as a pedestrian, with h…
…l factors contributing to the collision. The death was deemed a result of the traumatic injuries (pelvic fractures, rib fractures, and limb fractures) causing hypovolaemic shock. The coroner's only recommendation relate…
60y · Male·Pulmonary thromboembolism in a man with deep vein thrombosis following a fractur…
…ary embolism secondary to DVT. The coroner found medical care reasonable but noted that patients with lower limb fractures requiring immobilisation were not provided written information about DVT/PE signs and symptoms. T…
43y · Male·Multiple injuries sustained in a motorcycle incident (rider)
…lighting the catastrophic injuries sustained when motorcycles collide with heavy vehicles—multiple spine fractures, skull fractures, subarachnoid haemorrhage, complete midbrain transection, and complete aortic transecti…
86y · Female·Bronchopneumonia complicating chest injuries sustained in a motor vehicle collis…
An 86-year-old woman died from bronchopneumonia complicating chest injuries sustained in a motor vehicle collision on 17 June 2019. A stolen vehicle being driven recklessly by an unlicensed driver under the influence of …
47y · Female·Multiple (head, spine, pelvic and limb) injuries due to a vehicle crash
…o alcohol or drugs in either person. Mrs Brock sustained multiple injuries including head trauma, spinal fractures, pelvic fractures, and hemopneumothorax, and died at the scene. The coroner found the collision was caus…
76y · Male·Bronchopneumonia in a man with ischaemic heart disease and treated spinal crush …
John Hayle, a 76-year-old with Alzheimer's dementia, ischaemic heart disease, and spinal fractures sustained a T11/12 flexion-distraction fracture on 9 June 2017. Over three weeks, he developed progressi…
72y · Male·multiple injuries resulting from catastrophic head injury with massive disruptio…
A 72-year-old man with schizophrenia and a history of suicidal ideation died by jumping from level 7 of a shopping centre. He had stopped taking prescribed medications and had been planning this action, making calls to f…
21y · Female·pulmonary embolism in association with deep vein thrombosis of the left leg
…cribed either agent after discharge. Expert evidence revealed lack of consensus on VTE prophylaxis in lower limb fractures, but most experts agreed the patient should have been risk-stratified and offered prophylaxis. Ke…
56y · Male·Complications of atraumatic bilateral femoral fractures (repaired) during a seiz…
… a 56-year-old man with Down syndrome and dementia, sustained multiple seizure-related bilateral femoral fractures. A subtle posterior cortical fracture to his left femur, sustained during a seizure on 15 June 2019, was…
42y · Male·Pulmonary thromboembolism and deep calf vein thrombosis
…nsive and could not be revived. The clinical lesson is that patients with significant immobility from lower limb fractures require vigilant thromboprophylaxis monitoring and assessment. Early mobilisation, continued phar…
29y · Female·Multiple injuries (fracture dislocation cervical spine, fractured larynx, multip…
Nicole Knox-Smith, aged 29, died in a motorcycle collision with a stolen Ford station wagon on the Princes Freeway. The driver, Jeffrey Dobbin, was heavily intoxicated with drugs and driving erratically whilst evading po…
36y · Male·Multi-organ failure due to consequences of multiple injuries sustained following…
A 36-year-old man with chronic treatment-refractory paranoid schizophrenia was involuntarily detained in an acute psychiatric ward after a failed community trial. Despite being a documented high absconding risk, he was t…
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