64 results for “thoracic trauma”
20y · Male·Blunt traumatic injuries from fall from height
… with friends, he lost his footing, slid down an embankment and fell off the cliff, sustaining fatal blunt traumatic injuries to the head, neck, thorax, abdomen and pelvis. Emergency services responded rapidly with a res…
Male·Asphyxia following rapid compression of the chest wall and lung haemorrhages sus…
Kenneth Hudson Mitchell, an experienced and trained tree feller employed by Kentish Council, died from asphyxia caused by chest compression when a tree fell on him while he was felling it on his property. Despite his tra…
Male·Nathaniel Calma David: blunt trauma of the head including laceration of the brai…
…crash on the Bass Highway in Tasmania on 10 July 2021. Nathaniel Calma David (driver) died from blunt head trauma with brain stem laceration; Cheryl Ann Isip David (front seat passenger) died from multiple injuries inclu…
65y · Male·haemothorax (acute blood loss in thoracic cavity) and blunt force trauma to the …
Peter John Nunn, a 65-year-old experienced driver, died from haemothorax and blunt force trauma after his vehicle lost control on a rural road at approximately 154 km/h while exiting a sweeping bend. He…
85y · Female·Staphylococcus bacteremia complicating multiple injuries sustained in a motor ve…
An 85-year-old woman sustained multiple serious injuries (bilateral rib and pelvic fractures, thoracic spine fractures) in a motor vehicle collision on 20 June 2018. She was treated with ICU admission, induce…
19y · Female·Multiple injuries including traumatic closed head injury, blunt trauma of the ch…
A 19-year-old female passenger died from multiple traumatic injuries sustained in a single-vehicle motor crash on 25 March 2020, when the vehicle she was travellin…
63y · Female·multiple severe trauma from falling tree; specifically aortic transection with m…
A 63-year-old woman died from severe blunt trauma after being struck by a falling tree while clearing fallen trees from her driveway during extreme weather.…
37y · Male·Stab injuries to neck, chest and abdomen
…xtradition reach. No clinical management errors are identified in this finding, as the death resulted from traumatic injury sustained prior to medical intervention.
26y · Male·multiple injuries sustained in a single motorcycle crash
…he road, and struck steel barrier cables and posts, sustaining massive head injuries, cardiac laceration, thoracic spinal fractures, and abdominal bleeding. This case illustrates the catastrophic consequences of impaired…
18y · Male·Blunt impact trauma to the torso with acute alcohol intoxication; motor vehicle …
An 18-year-old male driver with a zero alcohol licence died from blunt torso trauma after high-speed collision with a tree while acutely intoxicated (blood alcohol 0.20%, four times the lega…
2y · Male·Crush chest injuries
…children. Key clinical lesson: emergency clinicians should be aware of crush injury patterns in paediatric trauma and the common mechanism of furniture-related deaths in young children, which may inform injury prevention…
62y · Male·Advanced atherosclerotic and hypertensive coronary vascular disease
…xpectedly on 12 November 2023. The coroner found his advanced heart disease was the primary cause, but his traumatic injuries significantly contributed. Hospital care was of good standard. The death was not preventable f…
Male·Motor vehicle crash injuries; Arjomand—head injury; Hiron—chest and abdominal in…
…risk-taking behavior, reduced physiological compensatory responses, and shortened survival times following trauma. The crash resulted from driver error—loss of vehicle control while intoxicated. This case illustrates the…
67y · Male·Complications of pressure ulcers in the setting of a thoracic vertebral fracture…
… imaging options or positioning techniques. A sentinel event review identified multiple failures including trauma protocol non-compliance, anchoring bias, premature diagnostic closure, poor communication, and failure to …
26y · Female·Stab wounds to the abdomen and back
Ms Ngoc Bao Vy Tran, 26, died from stab wounds inflicted by her intimate partner Stephen Nguyen on 30 September 2021. She received appropriate emergency medical care and resuscitation at Dandenong Hospital but died from …
73y · Male·Complications of cervical fractures and spinal injury (operated), sustained in a…
…abetes, cardiac disease, liver cancer) slipped on wet tiles outside McDonald's and sustained cervical and thoracic spine fractures with spinal cord injury. Attending paramedics failed to follow Ambulance Victoria spinal …
Male·Mahdi Arjomand: unsurvivable head injury incurred at time of motor vehicle crash…
…stimulant intoxication significantly impairs driving ability and reduces physiological reserves to survive trauma.
74y · Female·haemothorax secondary to dissecting thoracic aorta
…letal pain diagnosis after normal troponins. She was found collapsed at home 12 hours later with ruptured thoracic aortic dissection and haemothorax—a fully preventable death. The critical failure was not considering aor…
15y · Male·right haemothorax due to lacerations of right lung
…al resuscitation in the Emergency Department was well-managed with appropriate use of chest drains; cardiothoracic theatre activation was timely. The injury itself (massive intrapulmonary bleed) was exceptionally rare an…
18y · Male·left haemopneumothorax due to traumatic rupture of the lower lobe of the left lu…
An 18-year-old male riding a motorcycle died when the vehicle crashed into a culvert while being pursued by police. The deceased was riding whilst disqualified from holding a licence and fled from police at moderate spee…
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