126 results for “severe chronic pain”
79y · Male·Ischaemic heart disease
John Angeles, aged 79, died of ischaemic heart disease while serving a life sentence for murder. He had severe triple-vessel coronary disease, chronic lung disease, and was on maximal medical therapy. The coroner foun…
87y · Female·digoxin toxicity with hyperkalaemia
An 87-year-old woman with atrial fibrillation, chronic pain, and renal failure intentionally overdosed on approximately 79 digoxin tablets. She called the ambul…
68y · Male·Bronchopneumonia in a man with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Maris Kugis, a 68-year-old man with chronic schizophrenia, personality disorders, and multiple serious physical conditions including COPD, ankylosing…
51y · Male·blunt trauma of the chest sustained in a motor vehicle crash; hypovolemic shock …
A 51-year-old man with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, chronic pain, and substance use disorder died from blunt chest trauma following a motor vehicle crash. He had a h…
68y · Female·mixed prescription drug toxicity (oxycodone, metoprolol, diazepam)
…68-year-old woman with multiple comorbidities including obesity (BMI 47.3), atrial fibrillation, COPD, and severe chronic pain, died from mixed prescription drug toxicity (oxycodone, metoprolol, diazepam) following suici…
41y · Female·Aspiration pneumonia in the setting of a mixed drug toxicity
…). She had complex psychiatric history (ADHD, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, eating disorder) and chronic pain managed with polypharmacy. While clinicians' prescribing had reasonable clinical basis with mitigati…
72y · Female·Hanging
Chang Ying Xu, a 72-year-old Chinese-speaking woman with severe spinal cord compression, chronic pain, and depression, died by hanging during respite care at an aged care…
65y · Male·Acute myocardial infarction due to or as a consequence of coronary atheroscleros…
… prisoner with known coronary artery disease, presented to prison medical centre on 13 July 2007 with chest pain, coughing up blood, fever and shortness of breath. He was appropriately diagnosed with lower respiratory tr…
44y · Male·multiple injuries from fall from cliff
…osis died following a fall from a cliff at Vaucluse during a police rescue operation. He had been managing severe FMF pain with oxycodone, which he subsequently prescription-shopped from multiple doctors. Following detec…
41y · Male·Effects of Fire
Mark Robert Scott, a 41-year-old man with chronic pain, substance addiction, and recent depressive illness, was admitted to Frankston Hospital on 15 July 2…
62y · Male·Ischaemic heart disease due to coronary atherosclerosis
Peter Albert Begg, a 62-year-old prisoner, died of ischaemic heart disease due to severe coronary atherosclerosis with contributing dothiepin toxicity. He collapsed while pushing a food trolley a…
57y · Female·Positional asphyxia caused by the combined effect of consumption of several opia…
57-year-old woman with chronic pain died from positional asphyxia caused by consumption of multiple sedative medications. She was prescr…
40y · Male·aspiration pneumonitis with acute alcoholic hepatitis, pancreatitis, mixed drug …
Trent Ian Johnston, a 40-year-old man with a history of chronic paranoid schizophrenia, alcohol and substance abuse, died from aspiration pneumonitis complicated by mixe…
48y · Male·sepsis and renal failure due to perforated gastric ulcer
…epatitis C and schizo-affective disorder presented to West Coast District Hospital on 20 October 2014 with severe abdominal pain radiating to the right shoulder tip, generalised tenderness, and a pain rating of 8/10. Cli…
85y · Male·Incised wounds to the wrist
An 85-year-old man with myelodysplasia and severe hip pain from an ischiorectal abscess died from incised wrist wounds sustained in a nursing home while in …
52y · Female·hepatic encephalopathy due to Child C cirrhosis of the liver on a background of …
A 52-year-old woman with chronic liver disease from alcohol abuse, diabetes and hepatitis C died from hepatic encephalopathy and cirrhosis…
41y · Male·Cerebral hypoxia and bronchopneumonia; contributing factors: toxic megacolon, ce…
David Orton, a 41-year-old man with cerebral palsy, intellectual disability, and severe kyphoscoliosis, died from cerebral hypoxia and bronchopneumonia complicated by toxic megacolon and Salmone…
62y · Male·Severe congestive heart failure and ischaemic cardiomyopathy
…pported residential care presented to the emergency department with breathlessness and was diagnosed with chronic heart disease and multi-organ failure. He was transferred to palliative care and died five days later fro…
67y · Male·hypothermia
… behaviour typical of hypothermia. Risk factors included advanced age, living alone, pre-existing disease (severe heart disease found at autopsy), alcoholism, and ambient temperatures of 6.8–9.8°C in late May. While the …
47y · Male·Multi organ failure and sepsis complicating ulcerating colitis and intestinal ob…
…vid Waymouth, a 47-year-old prisoner with extensive medical comorbidities including hepatitis C, obesity, chronic pain requiring methadone, and depression, fell from his bed in prison and sustained a right hip fracture.…
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