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NSWhospital2025-05-28

Inquest into the Death of Garry Small

71y · Male·Subdural haemorrhage on a background of an unwitnessed fall and anticoagulation …

A 71-year-old man with diabetes, ischaemic heart disease and osteomyelitis presented with fever and hypoglycaemia. He met Red Zone sepsis criteria (lactate 4.5mmol/L) but antibiotics were significantly delayed—ceftriaxon…

emergency medicinegeriatric medicinemedicationdelayceftriaxone
NTcommunity2011-07-27

Inquest into the death of Marilyn Lalara

48y · Female·acute myocarditis resulting from systemic viral infection

A 48-year-old Aboriginal woman with chronic diseases (diabetes, COPD, ischaemic heart disease) presented with ongoing chest infection symptoms across multiple clinic visits between 30 March and 4 April 2010. Despite five…

emergency medicinecardiologydiagnosticdelayantibiotics
TAShome2024-10-23

Coroner's Finding: Earl, Kathleen May

58y · Female·Complications of poorly controlled type 2 diabetes

Ms Kathleen Earl, aged 58, died from complications of poorly controlled type 2 diabetes in June 2022. She had an intellectual disability and received support from IHCS (Individual Support Worker) since 2005. Critical def…

general practiceendocrinologysystemcommunicationryzodeg
VICmental health2016-04-20

Finding into death of Chris Pravin Prasad

51y · Male·undetermined natural causes

Chris Prasad, a 51-year-old involuntary psychiatric inpatient with schizoaffective disorder, diabetes type 2, hypertension, and obesity (BMI 30.8), was granted day leave on 17 January 2013 during extreme heat (38°C) at C…

psychiatrygeneral medicinemedicationdiagnosticpaliperidone
VICaged care2011-05-20

Finding into death of Lena Divola

59y · Female·Subdural haemorrhage from blunt force trauma to head sustained in a backwards fa…

Lena Divola, a 59-year-old woman with intellectual disability, schizophrenia, and depression living in supported accommodation, sustained a head injury on 24 December 2007 when she fell backwards from a walker being push…

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VIChospital2020-03-26

Finding into death of Matthew John George

45y · Male·Global cerebral hypoxia following cardio-respiratory collapse due to anaphylaxis…

A 45-year-old man with poorly controlled diabetes, ischaemic heart disease, and recurrent lower limb infections died from anaphylaxis to intravenously administered flucloxacillin. He presented with sepsis secondary to a …

general medicineinfectious diseasescommunicationdiagnosticflucloxacillin

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