265 results for “intubation and ventilation”
68y · Male·exacerbation of congestive cardiac failure and aspiration pneumonia on a backgro…
Richard Alan Jones, a 68-year-old man with cerebral palsy, intellectual disability, epilepsy, and cardiac disease, presented to Austin Hospital in respiratory failure from congestive cardiac failure exacer…
42y · Male·Cardiac arrest following hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy, likely due to E.coli …
…eveloped sepsis-related acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) requiring ICU care with non-invasive ventilation. Critical failures occurred in managing his agitation and hypoxaemia on the evening of 3 July 2016. Alt…
Unknown·Ms Fensom: influenza A (H1N1 2009, pandemic swine flu) with myocarditis causing …
…influenza in 2009. Ms Fensom (41) died from myocarditis complicating swine flu after inadequate recognition and management of persistent hypotension at Millicent Hospital. Her condition required escalation to inotropic …
29y · Male·air embolus complicating gunshot wounds to chest
… confrontation. Initial medical stabilization appeared successful; he was intubated, chest drains inserted, and transferred to ICU in apparently stable condition with no immediate need for surgery. However, approximatel…
1y · Male·hypoxic brain damage due to laryngeal obstruction from foreign body (metal screw…
…screw that lodged in his larynx. The child was left briefly unsupervised at home when he ingested the screw and began choking. Parents and neighbours initiated CPR. Ambulance paramedics arrived within 6 minutes but stru…
57y · Female·Complications of muscular dystrophy
A 57-year-old woman with longstanding muscular dystrophy and newly diagnosed cardiomyopathy died from complications of her underlying conditio…
56y · Female·Complications of motor neuron disease
…cations of her disease while residing in supported disability accommodation. She had a PEG tube for feeding and required nocturnal ventilation. An advanced care directive refused CPR, intubation, tracheostomy, and inter…
0y · Male·meconium aspiration syndrome complicated by persistent pulmonary hypertension
Baby C was born at 41 weeks and 2 days covered in thick meconium with respiratory distress. Key clinical failures included: (1) failure to …
21y · Male·Closed head injury and retroperitoneal and pelvic haematoma due to fractured pel…
A 21-year-old man died from massive internal bleeding into the pelvis and retroperitoneum following a motor vehicle collision with a stobie pole in rural South Australia. He was tra…
45y · Female·Aspiration pneumonia
A 45-year-old woman with Down syndrome, epilepsy, and non-verbalisation living in a high-care community residential facility died from aspiration pneumonia. She …
60y · Male·Pulmonary Thromboembolism
Mr McCormack, a 60-year-old man with Huntington's disease and epilepsy living in supported disability accommodation, died from pulmonary thromboembolism following hospit…
2y · Male·Hyaline membrane disease and pneumonia in the setting of pneumothorax
…ted with respiratory distress at 11 hours of life. A capillary blood gas at 1:14pm showed mixed respiratory and metabolic acidosis indicating decompensation, but this was not recognized or escalated in the medical notes…
29y · Male·Blunt head and neck injuries sustained in an unintentional motor vehicle acciden…
A 29-year-old man sustained severe blunt head and cervical spinal cord injuries in a motor vehicle accident. He remained unconscious with high intracranial p…
52y · Male·Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
… to severe community-acquired pneumonia. He presented to hospital on 15 June 2018 with respiratory symptoms and hypoxia, was admitted to the respiratory ward, and intubated on 19 June. Despite aggressive treatment with …
45y · Male·Aspiration pneumonia with acquired brain injury as a contributing factor
Marco Virgona, a 45-year-old man with acquired brain injury and epilepsy, died from aspiration pneumonia at Frankston Hospital on 23 May 2017. He initially presented to Am…
33y · Male·Aspiration due to alcoholic intoxication; coronary atherosclerosis contributed
Adam Anthony Fernandez, aged 33, died from aspiration of food contents while acutely intoxicated (blood alcohol 0.276%) followin…
20y · Female·Cerebral anoxia consequent upon a severe acute asthmatic event
…thma unresponsive to initial treatment. After appropriate emergency management including oxygen, adrenaline and hydrocortisone, she was transferred to the High Dependency Unit where intubation became necessary. Dr N., a…
45y · Female·Epilepsy
45-year-old woman with chronic epilepsy and intellectual disability died following a prolonged seizure with cardiac arrest at a supported accommodation…
0y · Male·Complications of VATER syndrome and sacrococcygeal teratoma
Baby E was a 7-month-old neonate with VATER syndrome and sacrococcygeal teratoma who died from complications of these conditions. He was born prematurely at 30 week…
47y · Female·hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy complicating systolic cardiac arrest in the set…
Ms Ling-Ling Ang, aged 47, died from hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy and cardiac arrest following severe allergic asthma exacerbation during the November 2016 Melbourne thunderstor…
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