30 results for “possible acute cardiac event”
48y · Male·Coronary atherosclerosis with acute cardiac event
Richard William Hobbs, aged 48, died from cardiac arrest in custody at Brisbane Correctional Centre on 21 November 2017. He had significant comorbidities i…
81y · Male·Unable to determine - likely dehydration and exposure in remote bushland terrain…
Joseph Wellard Higgs, aged 81, disappeared in May 1986 from a remote area near Davyhurst, Western Australia. He had cognitive decline with short-term memory loss, difficulty walking due to hip surgery complications, a he…
82y · Male·Ischaemic heart disease due to coronary atherosclerosis with significant contrib…
…ith advanced ischaemic heart disease and emphysema died from myocardial infarction while in custody in the Acute Care Management Unit of a correctional facility. Correctional officers failed to read his Risk Interventio…
49y · Male·Coronary artery occlusion due to, or as a consequence of, coronary artery athero…
…cal lessons include: (1) chest pain in high-risk patients (age, ethnicity, male gender) should be assumed cardiac until proven otherwise, not dismissed by patient denial; (2) vital signs assessment was incomplete—blood …
83y · Female·Complications following fracture and surgical repair of the left hip in an elder…
Mrs Nola Inez Daniel, an 83-year-old with chronic lung disease, osteoporosis, and cardiac disease, was admitted to Regis Forrest Gardens for respite care on 24 December 2009. She sustained three …
35y · Male·Unascertained, following autopsy. Likely drowning but circumstances undetermined…
A 35-year-old man with chronic alcohol dependence was admitted to the ED with acute alcohol withdrawal and auditory hallucinations. Despite presenting with objective signs of withdrawal (tre…
62y · Male·Global cerebral ischaemia secondary to intra-operative hypotension following the…
…m global cerebral ischaemia following intra-operative hypotension after protamine administration during a cardiac ablation procedure. He had suffered a severe hypotensive reaction to protamine 8 days earlier during coro…
82y · Female·acute peritonitis, ruptured bowel and incarcerated bowel herniation
An 82-year-old woman admitted with bowel obstruction recovered well initially but suffered a preventable fall in the radiology department when left unattended with heavy IV pumps on her wheelchair, fracturin…
22y · Unknown·sudden death associated with volatile substance inhalation (butane and propane)
… volatile substance abuse (VSA) and mental illness was involuntarily admitted to Royal Darwin Hospital for acute psychosis. Due to COVID-19 bed-block, they were placed as an 'outlier' on a general ward rather than a men…
0y · Male·Complications following forceps delivery
…of survival; (4) confirmation bias led clinicians to focus on sepsis rather than haemorrhagic shock. Key preventive measures: transfer to theatre when red flags appear, implement robust scalp monitoring protocols post-i…
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