118 results for “head injury with skull fracture”
20y · Female·severe closed head injury with associated basal skull fractures
A 20-year-old woman died from severe closed head injury with basal skull fractures after being struck by a motor vehicle. The driver had a blood alcohol lev…
96y · Male·Traumatic closed head injuries sustained in a fall
A 96-year-old man with cognitive impairment and previous traumatic brain injury from a 2021 fall was admitted to residential aged …
68y · Male·Head injuries (multiple skull fractures with subdural and subarachnoid haemorrha…
A 68-year-old man died from head injuries sustained in a fall onto rocks while fishing at Frenchman's Bluff, South Australia. He was found f…
73y · Male·Blunt head injury from fall, complicated by warfarin therapy
A 73-year-old man on warfarin therapy for atrial fibrillation died from traumatic head injury sustained in an unwitnessed fall from a ladder while pruning roses at his home. He had been admitted…
30y · Male·head injury occasioned by impact with a moving vehicle moving at speed
Matthew Mitchell, 30 years old, died from a severe head injury sustained when struck by a moving vehicle on Graham Drive, Sandy Beach on 17 August 2013. He remaine…
15y · Male·head injury from motorcycle accident resulting in extensive brain injury and bas…
Jack MacNicol, a 15-year-old boy working on his family's cattle station, sustained a fatal head injury after falling from a motorcycle while mustering cattle without wearing a helmet. He suffered a sever…
1y · Male·Head injury in the setting of labour
Finn Moser was a one-day-old neonate who died from head injury sustained during labour and delivery at the Royal Women's Hospital. He was born to a mother with dic…
79y · Male·aspiration pneumonia
…neumonia at a nursing home where he was detained under guardianship orders. He had suffered two significant head injuries (2000 and 2013), with the latter requiring emergency neurosurgery for skull fractures and subdural…
Female·Multiple injuries due to or as a consequence of a motor vehicle collision
…ied in a motor vehicle collision on Tin Can Bay Road when a B-double truck driven by Paul O'Connor collided with their vehicle. The truck driver was not wearing a seatbelt; upon impact with a preceding vehicle, he was th…
68y · Male·pulmonary embolism secondary to immobilisation as a result of subdural haemorrha…
A 68-year-old man with cardiac history presented to Rockhampton Hospital after a fall with head trauma, found unconscious with alc…
51y · Male·Blunt head injury sustained in the circumstances of a seizure
John Jansen, a 51-year-old man with poorly controlled epilepsy and chronic alcoholism, died from blunt head injury sustained during a seizure i…
0y · Male·Head injury in the setting of labour
… weeks and 2 days following a failed instrumental delivery and emergency caesarean section. He developed a skull fracture and subgaleal haemorrhage, presenting with clinical deterioration at approximately 4 hours of age…
62y · Male·Head injury (acute subdural haemorrhage and fractured skull)
A 62-year-old man with schizophrenia, lung cancer, and seizure history was an involuntary patient at Broadmeadows Psychiatric Unit…
62y · Male·Blunt head injuries sustained in a workplace tree-felling accident
Stanley Brady, a 62-year-old experienced arborist with decades of tree-felling experience, died from severe blunt head trauma sustained in a workplace tree-fellin…
55y · Male·Traumatic brain injury caused by blunt force to the head sustained in a fall
Rodney Bates, a 55-year-old in custody at Cessnock Correctional Centre, died from traumatic brain injury sustained in a fall on 2 April 2015. He had experienced recurrent unexplained loss of consciousness episod…
67y · Male·acute intracranial (subarachnoid) haemorrhage resulting from blunt force trauma …
Neil Robert Kingston, 67, died from acute subarachnoid haemorrhage caused by blunt force trauma to his head when struck by a tree branch while felling a tree. He was not wearing a helmet despite wearing other protec…
64y · Male·Closed Head Injury
…n custody at Macquarie Correctional Centre, collapsed during morning muster on 22 March 2021 and struck his head on concrete flooring. CCTV footage captured the collapse, which appeared consistent with a sudden cardiac e…
40y · Male·Traumatic head injury sustained in an e-bike incident
A 40-year-old man died from traumatic brain injury sustained in an unwitnessed fall from an electric bicycle. He was riding without a helmet after consuming …
67y · Male·complications of blunt force head injuries
Gary McKell, aged 67, died from complications of blunt force head injury sustained during a physical altercation with his neighbour. After consuming approximately six beers,…
45y · Male·Blunt trauma of the head sustained when struck by an industrial fishing rope
Ian Thompson, a 45-year-old experienced fish farm worker, died from blunt head trauma sustained when struck by an industrial rope during a routine capstan operation on a fishing vessel. …
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