258 results for “hypoxic_brain_injury”
31y · Female·raised intracranial pressure due to ventriculoperitoneal shunt dysfunction (disc…
Emilie Le Coz, aged 31, died from raised intracranial pressure secondary to ventriculoperitoneal shunt disconnection. She presented to hospital in March 2010 with progressive headaches, cognitive changes and behaviour de…
0y · Male·Global cerebral hypoxic injury and perinatal asphyxia secondary to uterine ruptu…
Joseph Thurgood-Gates died at 5 days old from global cerebral hypoxic injury due to uterine rupture during labour. The death was preventable. His mother, Ms Thurgood, had two prior caesarean sections and refused hospital…
2y · Male·accidental drowning
A 2-year-old boy drowned at a public pool in a remote Australian community during a childcare centre excursion. Critical clinical and organisational failures contributed: no formal risk assessment was documented for the …
0y · Male·hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy due to intrapartum asphyxia
Bodhi Leo Searle, aged 36 hours, died from hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy due to intrapartum asphyxia. He was born to a woman in low-risk labour managed initially by independent midwife Stephanie Geyer. When labour did…
74y · Female·Multiple injuries sustained when struck by train
A 74-year-old woman with borderline personality disorder, depression, anxiety and type 2 diabetes died by suicide after absconding from Fiona Stanley Hospital Emergency Department. She had been on extended psychiatric ad…
10y · Male·Hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy following cardiorespiratory arrest due to compl…
A 10-year-old boy with severe obstructive sleep apnoea and morbid obesity died from hypoxic brain injury following cardiorespiratory arrest. Despite repeated medical interventions and explicit warnings that his condition…
15y · Male·Global ischaemic brain injury post cardiac arrest secondary to anaphylaxis
Jack Glen Irvine, a 15-year-old with documented severe nut allergies and asthma, died from anaphylaxis triggered by consuming a macadamia nut cookie at a Victorian Karting Association camp. The cookie was provided despit…
33y · Male·Cardio-respiratory arrest in the setting of prone restraint of an agitated obese…
A 33-year-old man with schizophrenia and a forensic history suffered cardio-respiratory arrest during prone restraint in a busy emergency department after his mental health community treatment order was revoked. He was a…
24y · Female·hypoxic brain injury secondary to hanging
Chrystal Ross, a 24-year-old woman, died by hanging in hospital in January 2015 after a catastrophic chain of communication failures and care coordination errors. She had been admitted to Mount Barker Hospital for anxiet…
19y · Male·hypoxic brain injury following asphyxia due to hanging
Jordan Kirkwood, a 19-year-old male, died by hanging on 30 April 2019 after being admitted to a newly established community-based mental health program (MHHITH) on 3 April 2019. He presented with depression, cannabis wit…
10y · Male·hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy following cardiorespiratory arrest due to compl…
AA, a 10-year-old boy with morbid obesity and severe obstructive sleep apnoea, died from hypoxic brain injury after a cardiorespiratory arrest. He had been admitted to hospital in May 2008 with these diagnoses and was pr…
19y · Male·complications of ligature compression of the neck
Stanley John Inman, 19-year-old Aboriginal male, died by suicide at St John of God Midland Hospital on 13 July 2020, two days after ligature compression of the neck at Acacia Prison. He was on low-level ARMS (at-risk man…
36y · Female·Global ischaemic injury following cardiorespiratory arrest in the immediate post…
Caroline Lovell, 36, died from postpartum haemorrhage following home birth of her second child. She had significant risk factors: prior PPH with first child and uterine fibroid, but these were not properly investigated b…
49y · Female·Hypoxic brain injury related to tracheostomy complications in form of airway occ…
Andrea Lester, age 49, suffered a subarachnoid haemorrhage from a PICA aneurysm in March 2018 with delayed diagnosis. Following complex neurosurgery causing Wallenberg syndrome, she required tracheostomy for bulbar dysfu…
17y · Male·Cerebral ischaemia caused by hanging at Quamby Youth Detention Centre at approxi…
Mark Watson, a 17-year-old boy charged with assault, was detained at Quamby Youth Detention Centre. During his second remand in September 1996, after a failed hospital admission, he returned to the same unit where he had…
50; 37y · Male; male·Mark John Furlan: hypoxic brain injury due to acute neck compression due to hang…
Two men died by hanging while detained under inpatient treatment orders at Ward 2G of Royal Adelaide Hospital. Mark Furlan (50) died in 2018 after developing psychotic depression with suicidal ideation. The coroner found…
46y · Female·Complications following cardiorespiratory arrest in association with an air embo…
A 46-year-old woman died from air embolism during a gastroscopy to manage complications from bariatric surgery. The initial laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy on 9 November 2007 had a staple misfire that was inadequately re…
30y · Female·Hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy complicating cardiac arrest of unknown aetiolog…
Heather Calgaret, a 30-year-old Aboriginal woman, died from hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy after being administered a first dose of buprenorphine (Buvidal) injection without prior stabilisation on sublingual Suboxone. …
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