35 results for “bacterial pneumonia”
2y · Male·Pneumonia
A 2-month-old Aboriginal infant died of pneumonia on 17 July 2019. Key clinical lessons: (1) Fever in infants <3 months requires careful evaluation per RC…
9y · Male·Disseminated melioidosis
…er 11 days, he was reviewed multiple times at Palm Island Hospital and diagnosed with community-acquired pneumonia on 14 February, treated with oral antibiotics. When he failed to improve, he was admitted on 20 February…
7y · Female·Pneumonia complicating a viral respiratory illness with acute combined drug effe…
Child ML, aged 7, died of pneumonia complicating viral respiratory illness with acute combined drug effect. She had severe cerebral palsy wi…
6y · Male·pneumonia complicating influenza A (H1N1) infection with secondary streptococcal…
Sebastian Parman, a 6-year-old boy, died from pneumonia complicating influenza H1N1 with secondary group A streptococcal infection causing scarlet fever, empyem…
44y · Female·Complications of a lung abscess with contributing factors of Down's syndrome and…
…ctions to both her family and residential care facility (Annecto), emphasizing daily cleaning to prevent bacterial and fungal infections. However, Annecto failed to implement documented procedures for CPAP maintenance, …
56y · Male·disseminated nocardiosis involving central nervous system, kidneys, liver and th…
Allan Kenneth Miller, 56, died from disseminated nocardiosis (rare bacterial infection) that was not diagnosed during his 12-day RAH admission. Clinicians initially suspected metast…
69y · Male·septic shock with multi-organ failure in a man with neutropenic sepsis on a back…
…fever plus neutropenia requires immediate broad-spectrum antibiotics regardless of presumed viral versus bacterial infection.
36y · Female·Complications of pneumonia and pulmonary emphysema with bullae formation; respir…
…ality, scoliosis, and difficult intubation history presented to a rural hospital with community-acquired pneumonia and sepsis. She had multiple 'red flag' indicators of severity including hypotension, tachypnoea, and hy…
94y · Female·Sepsis complicating management of vulval carcinoma in an elderly woman with seve…
A 94-year-old woman with vulval carcinoma underwent suprapubic catheter insertion at a private hospital on 14 May 2014. She appeared well post-procedure with normal observations. The following day, she was transferred by…
0y · Female·Disseminated Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV 1)
…igns. Clinical management was appropriate and timely, with empirical antibiotics initiated for suspected bacterial sepsis. HSV was not suspected due to lack of documented maternal genital HSV or postnatal exposure. A de…
0y · Female·acute necrotising pneumonia
Masaly Mosby, a 36-day-old Aboriginal infant, died from acute necrotising pneumonia after presenting to Broome Hospital Emergency Department three times in four days but never being seen b…
28y · Female·acute streptococcus pneumonia meningitis with left-sided otitis media as anteced…
Michelle McIlquham, 28 years old, died from undiagnosed acute bacterial meningitis (streptococcus pneumonia) that developed from a middle ear infection. She presented to Bankst…
0y · Female·Complications of ascending uterine infection (Klebsiella pneumoniae) in the sett…
Mia Rose Iskander died at 8 hours of age from ascending uterine infection (Klebsiella pneumoniae) with chorioamnionitis following maternal premature pre-labour rupture of membranes (PPROM) at 32 weeks…
1y · Male·Complications of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
…Dhar, 21 months old, died from undiagnosed acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) complicated by sepsis and pneumonia on 24 March 2024. After three weeks of intermittent fever, he attended his GP three times and was subseq…
57y · Female·multi-organ failure due to sepsis caused by streptococcus pneumoniae infection
…to Katherine District Hospital on 24 January 2018 with fever, vomiting, and cough. She had streptococcus pneumoniae sepsis with elevated inflammatory markers from 11:41am onwards, indicating bacterial infection. Despite…
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