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79y · Male·Multi-organ failure due to pneumonia and bleeding duodenal ulcer complicating su…
A 79-year-old man with ischaemic heart disease and dementia fell at home, sustaining a left hip fracture requiring surgery. Post-operatively, he developed hospital-acquired pneumonia, upper gastrointestinal bleeding from…
88y · Male·general inanition on a background of advanced dementia and a fractured patella (…
An 88-year-old man with advanced Alzheimer's dementia died from general inanition following a patella fracture sustained in a fall at a residential care facility. He was under a guardianship order requiring residential p…
80y · Male·gunshot wound to the head
An 80-year-old man with chronic back pain died by self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head on 1 March 2011. Five days before his death, he mentioned suicide using a rifle to his long-term general practitioner, Dr Daniels…
76y · Female·colchicine toxicity
A 76-year-old woman with gout died from colchicine toxicity after being prescribed 500µg three times daily on 9 December 2010 for an acute attack. She developed diarrhoea from 15 December and died on 19 December with a p…
Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy following ventilatory failure/cardiac arrest (R…
Two obese patients died from hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy following cardio-respiratory deterioration post-operatively at a private hospital without overnight medical cover. John Ryan (54) deteriorated within hours of…
83y · Female·neck compression from a wheelchair restraint strap
Ruth Ann Dicker, an 83-year-old resident of an aged care facility with epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, and dementia, died from neck compression caused by a wheelchair lap belt restraint. After a significant history of fal…
82y · Female·fat embolism syndrome and bronchopneumonia following nail fixation of bilateral …
An 82-year-old woman with severe dementia and marked osteoporosis died from fat embolism syndrome and bronchopneumonia following surgical fixation of bilateral femoral fractures. The fractures occurred on 10 September 20…
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 …
64y · Male·hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy complicating cardiac arrest due to retroperiton…
A 64-year-old man died from hypovolaemic cardiac arrest caused by retroperitoneal bleeding from a pelvic fracture. The bleeding occurred six days post-injury while on high-dose enoxaparin (100mg twice daily) initiated un…
76y · Female·Aspiration pneumonia complicating surgery for pelvic and spinal fractures on a b…
A 76-year-old woman died from aspiration pneumonia following surgery for pelvic and spinal fractures sustained in a fall on a shopping centre travelator. She fell when her husband lost control of a shopping trolley with …
81y · Female·ischaemic bowel
An 81-year-old woman with longstanding depression and multiple comorbidities fell and fractured her humerus in March 2009. During rehabilitation, she became increasingly depressed and self-neglectful, refusing food and c…
60y · Male·cardiorespiratory failure due to malignant pleural effusion due to metastatic ma…
A 60-year-old man with diabetes presented with a plantar heel ulcer in March 2007 that was initially treated as a diabetic foot ulcer. The lesion failed to heal over 16 months despite standard care including wound dressi…
56y · Female·pulmonary thromboembolism due to left calf deep vein thrombosis
A 56-year-old woman with bipolar disorder died from pulmonary thromboembolism due to left calf deep vein thrombosis while detained under the Mental Health Act in hospital. She presented with seizures and underwent wrist …
84y · Female·septicaemia secondary to septic arthritis of the left knee
An 84-year-old woman presented to hospital with acute left knee swelling and pain. Initial assessment at Ashford Hospital ED reasonably excluded septic arthritis based on borderline blood tests and absence of fever, thou…
35y · Male·pulmonary thromboembolism due to left deep calf vein thrombosis complicating lef…
John Matthew Murray, aged 35, died from pulmonary thromboembolism due to deep vein thrombosis complicating severe pelvic and leg fractures sustained in a motorcycle accident. Following extensive orthopaedic surgery, he w…
35y · Male·pulmonary thromboembolism due to left deep calf vein thrombosis complicating lef…
John Matthew Murray, aged 35, died of pulmonary thromboembolism complicating pelvic and leg fractures sustained in a motorcycle accident. He was admitted to Royal Adelaide Hospital and underwent extensive orthopaedic sur…
77y · Female·myocardial infarction
Eileen Sarah Elliott, aged 77, died of myocardial infarction following a fall and leg fracture in January 2000. She was admitted to Glenside Hospital under a Mental Health Act detention order for chronic schizophrenia. A…
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