617 results for “ischaemic heart disease”
59y · Female·mixed prescription drug and alcohol toxicity (ethanol, diazepam, fluoxetine, and…
Julie Gaye Williams, 59, died from mixed prescription drug and alcohol toxicity with aspiration of gastric contents. She had extensive psychiatric history including depression, PTSD, bipolar disorder, and alcohol depende…
80y · Male·General inanition due to advanced Alzheimer's dementia
Phillip Maxwell Hayden, aged 80, died of general inanition due to advanced Alzheimer's dementia at a nursing home. He had been admitted to hospital in June 2014 with behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia, re…
74y · Male·small intestinal ischaemia caused by aortic atherosclerosis
…d tests indicating infection and organ dysfunction, a MET call was not made for 18 hours. The underlying ischaemic bowel was not diagnosed until 9pm when he was critically ill with septic shock and multiple organ failur…
91y · Male·Complications of cerebrovascular and ischaemic heart disease in a man post anaph…
A 91-year-old man with known diltiazem allergy was prescribed diltiazem by a geriatrician despite documented allergy records. The geriatrician relied on the patient's verbal denial of allergies despite significant dement…
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…
37y · Male·Complications due to atherosclerotic heart disease and dyslipidaemia
Glen Dooley, a 37-year-old Aboriginal man, died of atherosclerotic heart disease and dyslipidaemia while in custody at Darwin Correctional Centre. His death was avoidable. He had …
72y · Male·exsanguination (blood loss) from severed femoral artery
Stephen Maxwell Powell, a 72-year-old man with schizophrenia, died by exsanguination from a self-inflicted femoral artery laceration. He was discharged from psychiatric inpatient care on a community treatment order on 14…
80y · Female·Anaphylaxis complicating chemotherapy for the treatment of metastatic fallopian …
Ms Heather Jean Lucas, 80-year-old woman with metastatic fallopian tube cancer, died from anaphylaxis during her third carboplatin chemotherapy infusion. She had experienced a documented Grade 2 hypersensitivity reaction…
70y · Male·aspiration pneumonia due to seizures
70-year-old man with insulin-dependent diabetes, cognitive impairment, depression, alcohol abuse history, and seizure disorder died from aspiration pneumonia following seizures while admitted under mental health legislat…
Male·out-of-hospital cardiac arrest due to atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and…
Lewis Walter Ward, a Ngarinyin man in his early thirties, died from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest while playing sport at West Kimberley Regional Prison. He had Type 2 diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidaemia, and was a smo…
56y · Female·hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy due to inadvertent oesophageal intubation and f…
Sukanya Thurairajah, 55-year-old with multiple comorbidities including obesity, diabetes, coronary disease, and metastatic breast cancer, underwent haemodialysis at Canberra Hospital on 29 July 2011. She had an a…
73y · Male·metastatic small cell lung cancer and sepsis
A 73-year-old man with metastatic small cell lung cancer and sepsis died in Royal Adelaide Hospital while in prison custody. He had been sentenced in May 2015 and received appropriate oncology care including chemotherapy…
93y · Female·blunt trauma with head injury on a background of ischaemic heart disease
Dorothy Mavis Baum, 93, died at Flinders Medical Centre from blunt trauma with head injury following an unprovoked assault by another nursing home resident with a plastic chain. Critical clinical failures occurred: the n…
79y · Female·Combined Effects of Neck Compression and Haemothorax in the Setting of a Fractur…
Ms F, a 79-year-old woman with complex medical history including ischaemic heart disease, chronic airways disease, seizures, and bipolar affective disorder, died from neck compres…
52y · Male·salt water drowning
…pment factors contributed: severe obesity (132kg), emphysema with lung bullae, coronary atheroma, enlarged heart, tight-fitting wetsuit causing chest compression and hypoxia, and an exceptionally heavy weight belt (20kg…
96y · Male·general inanition on a background of advanced dementia, chronic congestive cardi…
Colin Pryor Tucker, aged 96, died of general inanition on a background of advanced dementia, chronic congestive cardiac failure and pneumonia at Repatriation General Hospital. He was admitted with urinary retention, acut…
89y · Female·acute-on-chronic renal failure on a background of ischaemic heart disease, hyper…
An 89-year-old Aboriginal woman with chronic renal impairment and congestive cardiac failure was prescribed gentamicin intramuscularly for a urinary tract infection caused by Klebsiella aerogenes. Gentamicin is nephrotox…
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 spondylitis, and undiagnosed pancreatic adenocarcinoma, died from bron…
75y · Male·metastatic pancreatic cancer
A 75-year-old man died from metastatic pancreatic cancer while in lawful custody. He was diagnosed in February 2025 and underwent palliative chemotherapy at Prince of Wales Hospital from March-April 2025. He developed an…
66y · Male·infectious complications of plasmablastic myeloma
Mati Tamwoy, a 66-year-old Aboriginal man, died in ICU from infectious complications of plasmablastic myeloma after 661 days on remand. He received excellent oncological care including chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Howe…
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