200 results for “trauma from fall”
0y · Male·Traumatic head injuries including subdural haemorrhage, intracranial haemorrhage…
A seven-week-old infant died from traumatic head injuries including subdural haemorrhage, retinal haemorrhages, and axonal injury. Medical ev…
18y · Male·head injury sustained in motor vehicle crash
Hayden Kennedy, 18, died from a head injury sustained as a passenger in a Polaris UTV driven by Thomas Rowlands. The vehicle crashed into…
44y · Male·Multiple traumatic injuries sustained in a fall from height
Ashley Bryant, a 44-year-old former NSW police officer with 24 years service, died by suicide at Minyon Falls on 16 December 2013 while suffering from PTSD, depression and alcohol dependence. The coroner found these …
60y · Male·respiratory failure and sepsis complicating acute subdural haematoma
…timely treatment. Clinical lessons include the inevitability of poor outcome given the severity of initial traumatic brain injury, despite optimal surgical and critical care management. The coroner found Senior Constable…
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 ce…
17y · Male·cranial and facial trauma
A 17-year-old male with acute schizophrenia died from cranial and facial trauma after running off a 15.6-metre cliff during a psychotic episode. Hours before, he…
95y · Female·Acute intracranial haemorrhage
…year-old woman with dementia, hearing impairment, mobility limitations, and mild cognitive impairment, died from acute intracranial haemorrhage following blunt head trauma. She had been living with her son UJN, who was h…
28y · Male·Hypoxic brain injury as a result of a respiratory arrest, after inadequate respi…
Grant Cook, aged 28, collapsed during a rugby league game after a tackle caused him to fall and hit his head. He suffered a grand mal seizure with snoring/obstructed breathing, leading to respiratory…
32y · Male·crush injuries sustained in a rock fall
… the East Wall of an open-pit iron ore mine in Tasmania on 17 March 2017. Scaling—the removal of loose rock from pit walls—is an inherent control measure for addressing rockfall risk, but carries significant residual dan…
Unknown·multiple physical injuries sustained in a mid-air collision during skydiving
…ion Beach, Queensland on 13 October 2017. Tandem instructor Peter Dawson and customer Kerri Pike (in drogue-fall) collided with solo sport jumper Tobias Turner whose main parachute deployed prematurely at low altitude. T…
86y · Female·right subdural haematoma due to blunt head trauma with contributing excessive wa…
An 86-year-old woman died from subdural haematoma following a minor head injury, complicated by excessive warfarin anticoagulation. She wa…
33y · Female·Blunt impact injuries
…while she was camping on crown land at the Murray River foreshore near Brimin. The branch fell unexpectedly from a Red Gum tree, and although a tree branch of approximately 30cm diameter struck her, her companions were u…
27y · Female·chest injuries
Olivia Inglis, 27, died from chest injuries sustained in a fall whilst competing in the cross country phase of eventing at the 2016 Scon…
23y · Male·Multiple injuries due to industrial trauma from building collapse and crush inju…
Timothy James McPhee, 23, died from crush injuries when a building being lowered by a Trewhella jack collapsed at Bundaberg Airport on his seco…
56y · Male·head injuries inflicted by blunt force trauma
…son-Willson was fatally assaulted in Brisbane's Botanical Gardens on 3 June 2005 by Daniel Pattel, released from prison five days earlier. Pattel had expressed clear intentions to kill someone prior to release and had a …
74y · Female·Fractures of the legs, with terminal palliative care, in an elderly lady with mu…
Ms Papanastasiou, a 74-year-old aged care resident confined to a wheelchair, died from bilateral femoral fractures sustained when she fell from her wheelchair during sudden bus braking. The whee…
35y · Female·multiple injuries sustained in fall from sixth-floor balcony
FJ, an Iranian woman with bipolar affective disorder and schizophrenia, died by suicide at age 35 in November 2016. Key clinical lessons include: (1) the critical importance of continuity of psychiatric care during trans…
9y · Male·Head injury (epidural haematoma with cerebral coning following craniotomy)
…somal disorder causing severe developmental delay and neurological abnormalities. On 11 April 2000, he fell from a computer desk and struck his head. His GP, Dr A., diagnosed concussion and sent him home. When Dwayne vom…
41y · Male·Complications of blunt force injuries of the head
Colin Parker, aged 41, suffered an unwitnessed fall with head injury while experiencing syncope from atrial fibrillation in early May 2014. He was admitted to …
0y · Female·Extensive cerebral destruction as a result of fractured skull following accident…
Isabella Wren Diefenbach, a 7-week-old infant, died from head injuries sustained when she fell from her father's arms after he stepped through a severely decayed ti…
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