28y · Female·combined drug toxicity (heroin and prescribed psychiatric medications)
Priscilla Stephenson, a 28-year-old Aboriginal woman with longstanding mental illness and polysubstance abuse, died from combined drug toxicity (heroin plus prescribed psychiatric medications) shortly after discharge fro…
0y · Female·bronchopneumonia caused by hypoxic brain damage caused or contributed to by meni…
A 9-month-old Aboriginal girl died from bronchopneumonia caused by hypoxic brain damage following cardiorespiratory arrest due to meningitis and seizures. During resuscitation at a rural GP clinic, a CO₂ cylinder was ina…
39y · Male·Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy (aetiology not determined); cardiorespiratory a…
Stephen Nash, a 39-year-old man, died after being restrained face-down by security providers and hotel staff at the Union Jack Hotel in Cairns following an altercation where he punched a security officer. The restraint l…
30y · Male·acute combined heroin and alcohol toxicity; ingestion of alcohol and heroin
…ael's sister at 10:37am. When the sister arrived, she found Michael with laboured breathing, cyanosis, and vomit on his face, and immediately called an ambulance. Michael died five days later in ICU. The coroner found t…
36y · Female·respiratory depression after loss of consciousness caused by mixed drug toxicity…
Rebecca Maher, a 36-year-old Aboriginal woman, died from respiratory depression caused by mixed drug toxicity (high levels of Alprazolam and Methadone) while detained as an intoxicated person at Maitland police station. …
Zara Schupelius: suffocation; Callum Smith: undetermined; Jake Hackett: suffocat…
Concurrent inquests into five sudden unexpected deaths in infancy (SUDI), three attributed to suffocation and two undetermined but with suffocation as a significant possibility. All deaths occurred in infants aged 2-7 mo…
38y · Female·peritonitis with septic shock secondary to perforation of the gastrointestinal t…
…0am without diagnosis while clearly unwell, to a facility with no medical staff on duty. (3) Coffee-ground vomitus was documented but not properly investigated as a sign of gastrointestinal pathology. (4) Dr G.'s failur…
44y · Male·Combined drug effect (oxycodone and benzodiazepines)
A 44-year-old man with a history of heroin addiction registered as a drug addict in 2010 died from combined drug effect involving oxycodone and benzodiazepines. Despite being a registered drug addict, he obtained prescri…
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