304 results for “acute toxicity”
16y · Female·Respiratory arrest due to the depressant effect of opiate medication
Vanessa Anderson, 16, suffered a depressed skull fracture from a golf ball strike and was admitted to Royal North Shore Hospital. She died from respiratory arrest due to opioid-induced respiratory depression, which was e…
Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy following ventilatory failure/cardiac arrest (R…
Two obese patients died from hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy following cardio-respiratory deterioration post-operatively at a private hospital without overnight medical cover. John Ryan (54) deteriorated within hours of…
40y · Male·Unascertained; opioid withdrawal-related seizure or cardiac arrhythmia could not…
…osis emerged. He was found unresponsive in his cell. The autopsy excluded head injury, sepsis, and opioid toxicity but could not definitively exclude withdrawal-related seizure or cardiac arrhythmia. Clinical lessons: di…
22y · Female·compression of the neck consistent with hanging
22-year-old Deborah McKenzie, an Aboriginal woman, died by hanging on 13 March 2013 after a complex sequence of failures in mental health care and police procedures. She had reported her partner Shane Woods to police for…
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