72 results for “emergency surgery for bowel obstruction”
47y · Male·Multi organ failure and sepsis complicating ulcerating colitis and intestinal ob…
… total hip replacement but developed post-operative complications including pulmonary embolism, pneumonia, bowel obstruction, and severe constipation. He was readmitted to hospital eight hours after discharge following …
78y · Female·sepsis and aspiration with metabolic dysfunction as a result of mechanical small…
Joan Dennison, aged 78, was discharged from Shellharbour Hospital emergency department on 16 November 2007 with a misdiagnosis of constipation, despite clinical and imaging feature…
53y · Female·infarction of the transverse colon due to mesenteric/retroperitoneal haemorrhage…
…lism was diagnosed and anticoagulation commenced. She developed abdominal pain and imaging suggested small bowel obstruction managed conservatively. Warfarin levels became dangerously high (6-8 September) leading to int…
79y · Female·aspiration pneumonia caused by aspiration of emesis secondary to small bowel obs…
Mrs Little, 79, died from aspiration pneumonia caused by small bowel obstruction post-hysterectomy surgery. The obstruction resulted from both pre-existing adhesions and a pos…
Female·Coronary atherosclerosis with ischaemic small bowel and Alzheimer's disease
…h enema and laxatives, she was discharged then readmitted when symptoms persisted. At Hervey Bay Hospital, bowel obstruction was confirmed. Due to elevated lactate on arterial blood gas and lack of available ventilated …
69y · Female·faecal peritonitis due to small bowel obstruction and perforation due to periton…
A 69-year-old woman presented to the Emergency Department with abdominal pain and vomiting. The doctor did not take adequate history, perform thorough …
73y · Male·Aspiration pneumonia
John Hardy Stow, 73, died of aspiration pneumonia complicated by a small bowel obstruction. He had cerebral palsy, intellectual disability, dysphagia, and was at high risk of aspiration…
61y · Female·respiratory failure secondary to advanced malignancy
…longstanding paranoid schizophrenia with poor insight and compliance. Cancer was diagnosed in 2006 after emergency surgery for bowel obstruction; she refused adjuvant chemotherapy. In 2009, recurrent metastatic disease …
70y · Female·Severe dehydration and renal complications secondary to intestinal obstruction d…
…presented to a rural hospital with 48 hours of vomiting and dehydration secondary to an inguinal hernia obstruction. The initial assessment by the hospital medical officer failed to adequately review ambulance notes doc…
79y · Male·complications of peritonitis
A 79-year-old man with multiple comorbidities presented with a perforated bowel requiring emergency Hartmann's procedure. The operating surgeon, Dr L.-Ming Schmidt, made a catas…
11y · Male·complications of bowel obstruction in the setting of chronic constipation
RDZ was an 11-year-old Aboriginal boy who died from complications of bowel obstruction secondary to chronic constipation with a fecalith. He had been under paediatric care for years…
83y · Female·cardiac arrest from severe triple vessel coronary artery disease complicated by …
…ngton, aged 83, died from cardiac arrest secondary to severe coronary artery disease, complicated by large bowel obstruction from rectal carcinoma. She presented to Roma Hospital with constipation and was diagnosed appr…
40y · Male·Aspiration pneumonia
…n at Werribee Mercy Hospital. He presented with acute abdominal pain and vomiting, imaging suggested small bowel obstruction, and he became agitated during nasogastric tube insertion. Ketamine was administered for sedat…
16y · Male·mid-gut volvulus and bowel obstruction, leading to ischaemic bowel and related c…
…ing, and imaging showing caecal malrotation with volvulus—his condition was not recognised as a surgical emergency until late evening. Critical delays in senior physician oversight, delayed CT imaging interpretation, an…
34y · Female·complications of metastatic rectal cancer
…in February 2003 when a potential surgical cure was possible. However, she rejected mainstream treatment (surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy) based on advice from a homeopath, Francine Scrayen, who claimed she could cu…
67y · Female·perforated sigmoid volvulus with peritonitis upon a background of spinocerebella…
Betty Irene Ball, aged 67, died from perforated sigmoid volvulus with peritonitis on 2 February 2016. She had spinocerebellar ataxia and was resident i…
88y · Female·Complications of a pedestrian accident including subarachnoid haemorrhage, subdu…
…hage, and fractured humerus. She was initially managed conservatively at Ballarat Base Hospital with neurosurgery consultation. Subsequently she developed acute delirium, a large bowel obstruction, and NSTEMI. She was t…
89y · Male·combination of biochemical consequences of colonic pseudo-obstruction and faecal…
… colitis. He resided in a residential aged care facility (RACF) where staff failed to recognize that small bowel movements represented faecal overflow rather than normal bowel function. Despite bowel charts documenting …
7y · Female·cardiac tamponade due to total parenteral nutrition fluid leakage into the peric…
…arenteral nutrition (TPN) fluid leaking into the pericardial sac via a central venous line inserted during bowel obstruction surgery. Clinical lessons: cardiac tamponade is a rare but life-threatening complication of ce…
48y · Male·Hypoxic brain injury following cardiac arrest in a patient with sigmoid colon vo…
…-year-old man with chronic paranoid schizophrenia who had been an involuntary patient at Graylands Hospital for 23 years, presented to Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital on 13 June 2004 with abdominal pain and signs of acute…
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