312 results for “severe brain injury”
2y · Male·Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy due to cardiorespiratory arrest secondary to up…
…charge. The following day he suffered cardiorespiratory arrest from upper airway obstruction, resulting in severe hypoxic-ischaemic brain injury and death. Key issues: inadequate observation period; poor documentation of…
8y · Male·prematurity-associated lung and bowel disease
Daniel Wright was a premature infant (born at 24 weeks) with multiple complex medical needs including chronic lung disease, developmental delay, and failure to thrive. He died aged eight months from prematurity-associate…
Unknown·Multiple: Olanzapine toxicity, pulmonary thromboembolism, asphyxiation on food, …
…tween June 2009 and August 2010. All residents had schizophrenia on multiple antipsychotic medications and severe, untreated physical comorbidities (cardiac disease, COPD, obesity). The coroner found preventable clinical…
56y · Male·head injuries inflicted by blunt force trauma
…is meeting legal criteria, he could not be involuntarily detained. The case illustrates how prisoners with severe mental illness and intellectual disability fall between service gaps due to funding shortfalls, poor coord…
36y · Female·traumatic head injuries from multiple assaults perpetrated by domestic violence …
Noelene Beutel died from severe head injuries inflicted by her domestic violence partner in 2011. Although she had engaged with police, GP…
41y · Female·Mixed drug toxicity (alprazolam, clonazepam, diazepam, methadone, metoclopramide…
… died from mixed drug toxicity in July 2022 in circumstances consistent with suicide. She was experiencing severe family violence, including coercive control, threats, stalking and emotional abuse from her partner Mr TT …
0y · Male·hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy due to intrapartum asphyxia
…ate instead of the baby's for approximately 26 minutes, during which time the baby was likely experiencing severe distress. This monitoring failure occurred because the midwife failed to verify the CTG was tracing the co…
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 arr…
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…
51y · Female·Multiple injuries sustained from a fall from the top floor of a multi-storey car…
…es sustained jumping from a multi-storey carpark while an inpatient at Royal Perth Hospital (RPH). She had severe treatment-resistant schizoaffective disorder, command hallucinations, liver cirrhosis, and required secure…
24y · Female·hypoxic brain injury secondary to hanging
…rk) from the community mental health team, who had never met Chrystal, declined the offered bed based on a severely misinterpreted conversation between the psychiatrist and a bed coordinator. York then independently info…
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 adm…
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