Coronial

27 results for post-operative decline

TASaged care2023-04-03

Coroner's Finding: Hazell, Nancy

100y · Female·frailty and fracture of the right neck of femur

… armchair on 25 June 2022, fracturing her right neck of femur. Despite orthopaedic surgery, her condition declined post-operatively and she died on 30 June 2022 from frailty and the hip fracture. The coroner identified …

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SAhospital2013-08-19

Coroner's Finding: WEEKS Ronald Geoffrey

84y · Male·respiratory failure due to hospital-acquired pneumonia

Ronald Geoffrey Weeks, aged 84, died of respiratory failure due to hospital-acquired pneumonia following a hip fracture sustained in a fall at James Nash House psychiatric facility. He was serving an 8-year sentence for …

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VIChospital2019-05-17

Finding into death of Mabel Grace Ellen Pritchard

90y · Female·Hospital acquired pneumonia in the setting of recent fractures of neck of humeru…

… competing urgent demands of multiple patients, particularly elderly patients with cognitive and physical decline who remain mobilising. The family's concerns were largely directed at systemic resource constraints rathe…

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SAaged care2003-03-24

Coroner's Finding: ELDRIDGE Collin Ernest

77y · Male·multi-organ failure secondary to myocardial infarction

… with MRSA. The coroner found that the MRSA infection was not a substantial contributor to death and that decline was the natural progression of chronic degenerative arterial disease. No evidence supported that care at …

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SAhospital2019-10-29

Coroner's Finding: PEMBERTON Graham Ashton

87y · Male·aspiration pneumonia, urinary tract infection and general inanition complicating…

Graham Pemberton, 87 years old with advanced Alzheimer's dementia, died of aspiration pneumonia, urinary tract infection, and general inanition. He was admitted to hospital multiple times in 2015 with behavioural disturb…

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TAShospital2015-11-27

Coroner's Finding: McManus, Pamela

75y · Female·large volume aspiration following right hemicolectomy for adenocarcinoma of the …

…nic cancer at the hepatic flexure, she underwent right hemicolectomy but died from aspiration two days post-operatively. Medical adviser Dr B. opined that prompt investigation of iron deficiency anaemia would have enable…

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TAShospital2023-08-02

Coroner's Finding: Slatter, Ronald Reginald

93y · Male·Alzheimer's dementia (as recorded on MCCD); however, the death resulted from a f…

Ronald Reginald Slatter, aged 93, died at Mersey Community Hospital on 22 July 2022, three weeks after sustaining a fractured neck of right femur from a fall on 1 July 2022. While the coroner found no issues with his cli…

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