300 results for “acute trauma”
48y · Female·head injuries from multiple blunt force trauma including punching, elbowing and …
…killed by her 20-year-old son who was an involuntary psychiatric patient at Orygen Youth Health (OYH) with acute paranoid schizophrenia. The son was granted overnight leave on 3 March 2009 despite several documented con…
37y · Male·blunt force injuries to the head and chest from jumping off an 8.65 metre roof
Daniel Bleaney, 37, experienced acute psychosis with command hallucinations while at sea and attempted suicide by jumping overboard. He was resc…
34y · Male·Hanging
… or cell checks. Staff response to discovery was appropriate. The key clinical lesson concerns recognising acute psychological crisis in custodial settings, particularly when facing new charges for serious offences comb…
40y · Male·Penetrating wounds to the chest
…is partner. Key clinical lessons: police officers failed to adequately recognise and act on clear signs of acute mental illness (delusions, hallucinations, disordered thought, impulsivity, unregulated emotions). They di…
34y · Male·cerebral destruction and fractured skull sustained in motor vehicle accident wit…
Troy Jason Howse (34M) died from massive head injuries (cerebral destruction and fractured skull) sustained when a Ford Falcon vehicle in which he was a passenger crashed and rolled on Old Byfield Road near Yeppoon on 28…
27y · Male·Unknown
Jeremiah Rivers, a 27-year-old First Nations man, disappeared from a remote pig-hunting camp at Wippo Creek in southwest Queensland on 18 October 2021. Members of his travelling group provided multiple inconsistent accou…
33y · Male·complications from blunt force trauma to head consequent upon being struck by a …
A 33-year-old man with long-standing substance abuse and acute methadone withdrawal presented with suicidal ideation on the morning of 11 February 2007. The Crisis Asses…
Male·thermal injuries (burns)
Ali Jaffari, an immigration detainee, died by suicide at Yongah Hill Immigration Detention Centre on 16 September 2015. He sustained fatal thermal injuries from a fire he deliberately started in his room. The deceased ha…
40y · Female·Head injuries inflicted by axe blows in context of intimate partner domestic abu…
…lied too heavily on perpetrator self-report without collateral information; victim's physical injuries and trauma were deprioritised in favour of the abuser's mental health needs; and lack of integrated communication bet…
19y · Male·Multiple injuries from motor vehicle collision (passenger)
Benjamin Hall, age 19, died in a motor vehicle crash when the vehicle he was a passenger in struck a tree at high speed. The driver, Steven Johnstone, a probationary P-plate licence holder, was grossly intoxicated (BAC 0…
34y · Male·multi-organ failure with right-sided tension pneumothorax
A 34-year-old man with a ruptured spleen and fractured ribs presented to the Emergency Department on multiple occasions with abdominal and chest pain. He was discharged on 28 February, 5 March and 6 March without admissi…
45y · Male·Plastic bag asphyxia
Muhammad Jaffar Hassan, aged 45, died in custody at Metropolitan Remand Centre by plastic bag asphyxia on 9 October 2018. He was remanded for murder following the death of his partner Ms Fatima Batool. Clinical assessmen…
40y · Male·Head injury from assault
…Centre. He sustained a severe head injury from stomping to the head, resulting in subdural haemorrhage and traumatic brain injury. The coroner found that while the assault itself was the criminal act of another prisoner,…
30y · Male·head injury sustained in a fall after being struck by crowd controller Henry Von…
…red in an intoxicated state (BAC 0.05-0.07). Key clinical lessons include: the importance of understanding traumatic head injury mechanisms; the vulnerability of intoxicated patients to severe injury from minor falls; an…
27y · Male·Airway obstruction due to a combination of positional asphyxia, aspiration and a…
27-year-old Aboriginal man died in Alice Springs Watch House from airway obstruction due to acute alcohol intoxication, positional asphyxia and aspiration. He was detained in protective custody after bein…
27y · Male·Effects of fire
…nt on 13 April 2018, he returned to Victoria but received inadequate mental health follow-up despite being acutely unwell, medication-free, and still subject to a treatment order. The referring Tasmanian service provide…
35y · Male·Head injury sustained in a bicycle accident
Sean Brindle, aged 35, died from head injury sustained in a bicycle accident on Boxing Day 2008 at The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne. He and his brother were struck from behind by a car driven by Luke Shields, who was sever…
63y · Male·Multisystem organ failure, pneumonitis and sepsis; complications arising from a …
A 63-year-old man died on 11 March 2008 from multisystem organ failure, sepsis and pneumonitis following a fall. He was admitted to Dandenong Hospital with rib fractures and pelvic injuries. Clinical deterioration occurr…
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…
39y · Female·multiple drug toxicity (etizolam and carisoprodol as major components)
…de (MARG) designed to minimise hospitalisations after previous admissions had proven counterproductive and traumatising. The coroner found the clinical care reasonable and appropriate within available structures. However…
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