21 results for “significant intellectual impairment”
61y · Male·head injury sustained on impact by a car
Leslie Wallace Taylor, a 61-year-old man with intellectual disability who could not communicate verbally, died from head injury sustained when struck by a motor v…
14y · Female·Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy due to choking on food, as a consequence of foe…
A 14-year-old girl with foetal alcohol syndrome, autism, and intellectual impairment died from hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy following choking on food during a community outi…
32y · Female·Aspiration pneumonia with severe cerebral palsy as underlying condition
Ella Hitchen was a 32-year-old woman with severe cerebral palsy, quadraplegia, intellectual disability, vision impairment, epilepsy and dysphagia who died from aspiration pneumonia. She had a PEG…
59y · Female·complications of sepsis due to cellulitis in a woman with multiple medical comor…
Suzanne McIllree, 59 years old with significant intellectual disability and primary lymphedema, died from sepsis secondary to cellulitis. She was admit…
48y · Female·Unascertained; presumed sudden cardiac arrhythmia
A 48-year-old woman with cerebral palsy, intellectual disability, and multiple comorbidities died unexpectedly in residential care. Post-mortem examination s…
37y · Male·Pseudomonas pneumonia
Peter Keating, a 37-year-old man with cerebral palsy and intellectual disability living in supported accommodation, died from pseudomonas pneumonia following a month-long ho…
Male·Neck injury in a man with atherosclerotic heart disease
Ashley James Bropho, a vulnerable remand prisoner with intellectual impairment, schizophrenia, diabetes, previous myocardial infarction with stent, and atherosclerotic hea…
75y · Male·Complications of multiple myeloma (palliated)
Brian Kevin Scurrah, a 75-year-old man with intellectual disability living in a supported residential service, died from complications of multiple myeloma. He w…
69y · Male·Myocardial infarction secondary to coronary artery atherosclerosis in the settin…
Mr Crabtree, a 69-year-old man with intellectual disability, COPD, emphysema and heavy smoking history, presented to the ED with respiratory distress on…
47y · Male·Pneumonia
Steven Pimblett, 47, with mild intellectual disability, died of pneumonia at home. A home care worker noticed significant health deterioration over…
15y · Male·Neck compression due to hanging
…ation; and inadequate support for non-Aboriginal foster carers. Yakamurro had complex trauma, PTSD, and intellectual/language difficulties. Years of institutional failures isolated him from family while he struggled with…
18y · Male·Aspiration pneumonia in a setting of acquired brain injury from non-accidental h…
…ury sustained non-accidentally as an infant. He had severe cerebral palsy, tetraparesis, aphasia, visual impairment, intellectual disability, epilepsy, and gastro-oesophageal reflux. After transitioning to community care…
46y · Male·Aspiration pneumonia in an obese man with a history of diabetes mellitus, obstru…
…tion risk, particularly with untreated obstructive sleep apnoea; (4) support for patients with cognitive impairment to maintain medical devices (CPAP) is essential. Clinicians should monitor clozapine levels closely when…
17y · Male·Cardiac arrhythmia during restraint, with previous traumatic brain injury as a s…
Pono Aperahama, a 17-year-old with severe traumatic brain injury and moderate intellectual disability, died from cardiac arrhythmia during restraint at a swimming pool. His escalating behaviour …
35y · Male·hyponatraemia due to excessive consumption of water, against a background of psy…
…and can rapidly progress to life-threatening hyponatraemia; (2) treatment-resistant schizophrenia poses significant management challenges; (3) custodial environments prevent optimal psychiatric care despite staff compet…
34y · Male·extensive blood loss from acute gastric erosions following severe scalding of th…
Neil Summerell, a 34-year-old man with intellectual disability, epilepsy, and vision/hearing impairment, died from acute gastric erosions following severe …
12y · Female·Raised intracranial pressure due to acute-on-chronic hydrocephalus in the contex…
Samantha Rose Spence, 12 years old, died two days after spinal fusion surgery for severe scoliosis. She had a pre-existing, asymptomatic Chiari type 1 malformation detected on pre-operative MRI of her spine. A paediatric…
42y · Female·Pneumonia, underlying severe cerebral palsy
…ile the coroner could not establish direct causation between these errors and her death from pneumonia, significant gaps were identified in disability-competent care, pain management, and documentation. The coroner high…
9y · Male·Drowning
A 9-year-old boy with poor swimming ability and mild intellectual impairment drowned at a waterpark after entering the deep end to use an inflatable device (Rocket), des…
31y · Male·Hanging
Scott Matthew O'Connor, a 31-year-old male, died by suicide in the Maximum Security Unit of Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre on 22 January 2013. He had been assessed as high-risk for self-harm and placed on 30-minute ob…
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