131 results for “asphyxiation”
33y · Female·Hypoxic brain injury secondary to plastic bag asphyxia
…ychiatric team awareness of her vulnerability and previous suicide attempt, she died on 1 May 2007 from asphyxiation using a plastic bag secured with knitting wool in a hospital toilet. The coroner found psychiatric trea…
33y · Male·Postural asphyxia due to restraint (Posey Poncho vest)
A 33-year-old male admitted after drug overdose died from asphyxiation while restrained in a Posey Poncho vest. Successfully treated for overdose complications, he developed …
91y · Female·asphyxiation due to neck entrapment on KA524 bedpole following fall from bed
Martha McKee, 91, died from asphyxiation when her neck became entrapped on a KA524 bedpole after falling from bed at Mid Richmond Aged Care on 2…
Unknown·Michael Anthony Hardy: acute asphyxiation sustained during dog pack attack. Robe…
…ed at Hidden Valley Camp in Alice Springs within weeks of each other. Michael Hardy, aged 27, died from asphyxiation during a dog pack attack while severely intoxicated. Robert Roe, aged 47, died from coronary atheroscle…
30y · Male·traumatic asphyxiation
Styles Isaac King, an Aboriginal man aged 30, died from traumatic asphyxiation following restraint by crowd controllers at a bar in Katherine, Northern Territory. During an altercati…
47y · Female·plastic bag asphyxia
…en removed during search) and a plastic bag (not then prohibited) were accessible to her. She died from asphyxiation using these items. Key failings: inadequate search of belongings on transfer between units; plastic bag…
19y · Unknown·hypoxic brain injury following cardiac arrest as a result of injuries sustained …
Two teenagers, Eliza Wannan (19) and William Dalton-Brown (19), died from hypoxic brain injury following cardiac arrest after being run over and crushed by a vehicle driven by a 17-year-old learner driver at a private pr…
43y · Male·hypoxic brain injury secondary to asphyxiation by ligature
A 43-year-old man died from hypoxic brain injury due to asphyxiation by ligature while an inpatient at a rehabilitation centre. He had undergone spinal surgery for back pai…
38y · Male·asphyxiation due to hanging
A 38-year-old remand prisoner with a long history of drug dependency died by asphyxiation from hanging in his cell at a metropolitan remand centre in September 2011. He had been assessed multip…
<1y · Male·unexpected death in infancy whilst co-sleeping with an adult and older child
… his mother and 5-year-old sister on a mattress in the lounge room. Autopsy revealed no specific cause; asphyxiation from unintentional overlay could not be excluded but was not definitively established. The death occurr…
18y · Female·asphyxiation and respiratory failure on a background of severe dystonic quadripl…
Madeline Duffy, 18 years old with severe dystonic quadriplegic cerebral palsy, died from asphyxiation and respiratory failure while in respite care. She was positioned on her side in bed with pillows, cont…
52y · Male·Significant blunt head trauma suffered from an assault inflicted by known person…
Chi Khanh Huynh, a 52-year-old man with long-standing drug dependencies and prior head trauma from a September 2018 scooter accident, died following a severe assault by Cheng Chia involving multiple punches and elbow str…
<1y · Male·Hypoxic Ischaemic Encephalopathy resulting from asphyxiation due to co-sleeping …
… West, an 8-day-old Aboriginal newborn, died from hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy following accidental asphyxiation due to co-sleeping (bed-sharing) with his mother at Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital on 4 May 2006. The inf…
Male·Asphyxia, caused by the inhalation of severely oxygen-depleted air
Paul McGuire, an experienced mine electrician, died from asphyxiation after opening a partially sealed hatch door to a GOAF (worked-out coal area) containing severely oxygen…
53y · Male·Steven Hitchins: plastic bag asphyxiation; Shawn Gudge: hanging
…failures in environmental hazard management and observation practices. Steven Hitchins (age 53) died by asphyxiation with a plastic bag in 2014; Shawn Gudge (age 23) died by hanging using a bed sheet in 2015. Both were o…
38y · Female·Asphyxiation by plastic bag
Helen Jeffery, aged 38, died by asphyxiation using a plastic bag in Ward GE of Nambour Hospital on 24 March 2005, five days after admission for psyc…
27y · Male·Asphyxia due to plastic bag asphyxia with inhalation of argon gas
Joshua Perkins, 27 years old, died by asphyxiation using a plastic bag connected to an argon gas canister. He had experienced persistent depression since …
Unknown·Kumintji Oliver: postural asphyxiation following motor vehicle crash, exacerbate…
Three Aboriginal adults died in a single-vehicle rollover crash on 22 December 2012 after a driver, Garth Ngalkin, accelerated away from a brief police stop, refusing passengers' repeated pleas to slow down despite polic…
26y · Male·Suffocation due to inhaling nitrous oxide
A 26-year-old man died from suffocation after intentional recreational nitrous oxide use via a full-face gas mask connected to a cream whipper dispenser. He had purchased 300 cream chargers plus a 640g tank online two da…
53y · Male·asphyxia due to upper airway occlusion by a foreign body (blanket)
…-old man with complex psychiatric disorder (schizophrenia, depression, intellectual disability) died by asphyxiation after stuffing a blanket into his mouth while in a High Dependency Unit of a psychiatric hospital. He w…
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