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47y · Female·insulin overdose
Katherine Walton, a 47-year-old registered nurse, died from insulin overdose in April 2007. She had a complex medical history including hepatitis C, depression, chronic back pain, epilepsy, and substance use issues. Afte…
31y · Male·Multiple injuries in a fall
A 31-year-old male with depression and a history of suicide attempts stopped taking his antidepressant (escitalopram) against medical advice. On 9 October 2008, after spending $1,000 on gambling and alcohol, he trashed h…
79y · Male·Ischaemic heart disease
Philip William Banner, aged 79, died of ischaemic heart disease while an inmate at Port Phillip Prison. He experienced chest pain at 2:11am, a Code Black was immediately called, and MICA paramedics arrived within 26 minu…
23y · Male·Injuries sustained in a fall from a height
Luke Jurj, a 23-year-old man, died from injuries sustained in a fall from the Westgate Bridge after jumping 30 metres. He had been experiencing depression since returning from Japan 7 weeks prior and had contacted his mo…
38y · Female·unascertained, likely natural causes
Dianne Rose Guthrie, a 38-year-old woman with intellectual disability secondary to childhood head injury and myotonic dystrophy, died at a residential disability facility. She was found unresponsive on 5 March 2009 and r…
68y · Female·intracerebral haemorrhage
Eileen May Howell, a 68-year-old woman with intellectual disability and history of cerebral haemorrhage in 2004, suffered a fatal intracerebral haemorrhage on 25 December 2008 while at her brother's home. She had been pr…
52y · Female·Aspiration pneumonia secondary to Alzheimer's disease
Laurel Howard was a 52-year-old woman with Down syndrome and Alzheimer's disease who died from aspiration pneumonia in hospital. She had progressive cognitive and functional decline, requiring high-level residential care…
80y · Female·Acute upper airway obstruction secondary to aspiration of food bolus
Beatrice Ivy Brown, aged 80, died at an aged care facility from acute upper airway obstruction and aspiration of a food bolus following a choking episode. Clinical lessons include: (1) documentation of prior choking epis…
30y · Male·head and chest injuries sustained in a fall from a height
Ali Sultan Zaidi, a 30-year-old man with bipolar affective disorder, died from head and chest injuries sustained in a fall from height on 24 September 2007. He had a psychiatric review on 20 September 2007 with Dr M., wh…
60y · Male·Metastatic carcinoma of the prostate
Michael Goldman was a 60-year-old prisoner at Port Phillip Prison who died of metastatic prostate cancer. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in September 2006 and underwent brachytherapy in mid-2007. By May 2008, prog…
31y · Male·Combined effects of multiple drugs in an obese male with findings suggestive of …
Simon Mark Gray, a 31-year-old man, died from combined effects of multiple medications in the setting of obesity and bronchopneumonia, less than 24 hours after discharge from psychiatric hospital. He had suffered a workp…
27y · Male·Asphyxia due to drowning
A 27-year-old man with intellectual disability and alcohol addiction drowned in Wodonga Creek after consuming significant alcohol throughout the day. Despite being a strong swimmer, he entered intoxicated water, stumbled…
28y · Male·hypoxic brain injury presumed to have occurred as a direct result from toxicity …
Christian Gonzalo Diaz, 28, died from hypoxic brain injury following presumed heroin toxicity on 9 January 2008. He was an involuntary psychiatric inpatient with schizophrenia and substance abuse history when he absconde…
54y · Male·Pneumonia
Peter Bannan, age 54, had lifelong quadriplegia and intellectual disability from early childhood encephalitis, with chronic epilepsy and severe aspiration risk. He was admitted on 5 October 2007 with aspiration pneumonia…
74y · Male·Drowning
A 74-year-old man drowned after falling from a homemade pontoon fishing boat in Westernport Bay. The vessel was assessed as highly unstable with a dangerously high centre of gravity, making it susceptible to capsizing. T…
42y · Male·Head injuries sustained in motor vehicle accident (passenger)
Trevor Day, 42-year-old CFA Brigade Captain, died from head injuries sustained in a motor vehicle rollover. He was an unrestrained passenger in a two-wheel drive tanker that rolled multiple times after the driver took an…
32y · Male·plastic bag asphyxia
David Mathew Smith, 32, died by plastic bag asphyxia on 25 November 2007. He had schizophrenia, chronic motor tic disorder, sexual paraphilia, and a history of explosive-making offences. He was subject to concurrent bail…
30y · Male·Gunshot wounds to chest and abdomen
Mohamed Ali Chaouk, aged 30, was fatally shot during a forced police entry to his home in Brooklyn, Victoria on 5 April 2005. Police executed search warrants and arrests related to organised crime investigations. When SO…
84y · Female·small bowel obstruction due to gallstone ileus
An 84-year-old woman with dementia, diabetes, and chronic renal failure presented to the ED twice within 48 hours with abdominal pain and diarrhoea. Both times investigations showed only faecal loading without obvious ob…
44y · Male·pneumonia and possible large left cerebrovascular accident (stroke) in a man wit…
Jamie Alan White, a 44-year-old man with neurofibromatosis, paraplegia, sleep apnoea, and chronic respiratory issues, was found unresponsive in his residential care unit bed on 15 June 2008 and could not be revived. The …
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