72 results for “aspiration choking”
60y · Male·Respiratory obstruction (choking by food)
…ry Scerri, a 60-year-old man with long-standing schizophrenia and mild intellectual disability, died from choking on food while eating pizza in a mental health inpatient unit. He had been admitted for management of cloz…
54y · Female·choking on a food bolus in a woman with an intellectual disability and other med…
Tracie Lyndal Markwick, a 54-year-old woman with intellectual disability and dysphagia, died from choking on food at her day placement centre. She had a documented mealtime management plan indicating mild-to-mod…
53y · Male·Choking on food bolus in pharynx, with Huntington's disease and coronary atheros…
…rd, aged 53 with Huntington's disease causing cognitive impairment and swallowing difficulties, died from choking on a bread sandwich while unsupervised in his aged care room. His care plan specified minced moist diet w…
56y · Male·Aspiration of food bolus
…y Delcus, a 56-year-old man with autism, intellectual disability and schizoaffective disorder, died from aspiration of a food bolus while eating lunch in a park. He was receiving supported living services through Aruma u…
46y · Female·hypoxic ischaemic brain injury as a result of cardiac arrest following a choking…
…ic Demyelination Syndrome (ODS) and acute psychiatric illness, died from hypoxic brain injury following a choking episode during a meal in a psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU). She had a prior history of swallowing …
90y · Female·Choking
A 90-year-old woman with dysphagia died from choking after consuming thin fluid (coffee) against medical recommendation. She had been reviewed by a speech pat…
64y · Male·Aspiration event obstruction in a man with oropharyngeal dysphagia and Parkinson…
… with intellectual disability, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease and oropharyngeal dysphagia, died from aspiration obstruction following a witnessed choking episode while eating. He presented to the ED the same day, was…
39y · Male·Hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy complicating acute upper airway obstruction by …
… of dietician's recommendations to cut food into bite-sized pieces; absence of staff training in managing choking risks; inadequate supervision during meals. Although a Nutrition and Swallowing Issue Checklist was compl…
69y · Male·asphyxia due to choking on food
…ies (diabetes, amputation, prostate cancer, recent MI) and cognitive impairment, died from asphyxia after choking on food while a resident at Roy Fagan Centre, a psychiatric hospital for older persons. He was being assi…
1y · Male·hypoxic brain damage due to laryngeal obstruction from foreign body (metal screw…
An 11-month-old boy died from hypoxic brain damage following aspiration of a 2cm metal screw that lodged in his larynx. The child was left briefly unsupervised at home when he …
52y · Male·asphyxia due to choking on food
…th Dunster, a 52-year-old man with chronic schizophrenia and cognitive decline, died from asphyxia due to choking on food at Millbrook Rise Rehabilitation Centre. He had a documented, well-known choking risk due to his …
59y · Male·Choking asphyxia
…ith intellectual disability, dementia, Fragile X Syndrome, and Chromosome 18 Deletion Syndrome, died from choking asphyxia at a residential care facility. He had a prior choking incident in 2019 with recommendations for…
55y · Female·asphyxia due to choking on food (steak)
…luding morbid obesity, schizophrenia, depression, and substance use disorder died from asphyxia caused by choking on food while at a friend's home in supported accommodation. She was on multiple central nervous system d…
42y · Female·Global hypoxic-ischaemic brain injury due to upper airway obstruction by food bo…
Lucia Di Pietro, a 42-year-old woman with severe autism and epilepsy living in Department of Human Services disability accommodation, choked on roast beef during supervised dinner on 1 August 2010. Emergency services arr…
68y · Male·Complications of a witnessed airway obstruction from food bolus in a man with dy…
A 68-year-old man with dysphagia and bipolar disorder died from airway obstruction and aspiration pneumonia after choking on a sandwich brought by his wife during a supervised hospital meal. He had been…
45y · Male·choking on food
…ity and psychiatric illness residing in an institutional setting (Strathmont Centre infirmary), died from choking on food. Critical failures in observation and monitoring preceded his death: he received wrong medication…
72y · Male·Choking on a food bolus
A 72-year-old man with vascular dementia, stroke history, and dysphagia died from choking on food while being fed by a nurse in aged care. The coroner found the death was preventable due to staff…
80y · Male·asphyxia due to choking on food
Robert Mather, 80, died from asphyxia due to choking on food while hospitalised with acute psychosis, severe malnutrition, iron deficiency anaemia and urinary…
68y · Male·Obstruction of airways by foodstuffs with contributing alcohol-related dementia
…fed excessive food in his mouth during dinner. Staff intervened appropriately by removing his plate, but aspiration occurred. Paramedics found total airway obstruction requiring forced intubation. The coroner found no pr…
48y · Female·Hypoxic/Ischaemic Encephalopathy; Aspiration of Food with Respiratory Arrest wit…
…g multiple residents during mealtime with divided attention. A new seating arrangement designed to reduce choking risk had been trialled the previous day but not communicated to staff on duty, so was not implemented. Cl…
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