55 results for “low blood pressure”
30y · Male·Electrocution from high-voltage electrical current (110,000 V)
…as a backup mechanism. The inquest identified several contributing contextual factors: social isolation and low peer acceptance within his military unit; frustration with the medical discharge process; intensive Church …
21y · Male·dilated cardiomyopathy
…ptember 2008. Dr G. identified clinical signs concerning for cardiac disease (tachycardia, finger clubbing, low blood pressure) but delayed investigations until Monday. Dean deteriorated and attended ED on 7 September, …
56y · Male·Ischaemic Heart Disease and Coronary Artery Atherosclerosis
…ot consider a cardiac source, attributing symptoms to abdominal pathology. The patient died suddenly the following day from a fatal cardiac arrhythmia due to severe triple-vessel coronary artery atherosclerosis. While t…
33y · Male·lobar pneumonia (Streptococcus pneumonia with septic shock)
…en King, a 33-year-old Aboriginal man, died of lobar pneumonia on 24 June 2002 at Alice Springs Hospital following brief police custody for alleged intoxication. He was apprehended twice on 23 June under protective cust…
76y · Male·ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm
…nstellation of symptoms and prior AAA history. A CT scan would likely have been diagnostic and might have allowed intervention, though prognosis would have been poor given Mr Carter's comorbidities.
0y · Male·severe hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy secondary to uterine rupture
…e, Ms Mansfield returned at approximately 1.50pm and detected signs of possible uterine rupture: abnormally low blood pressure and low fetal heart rate. Emergency transfer to Busselton Hospital occurred; emergency caesa…
Female·Verris Dawn Wright: septic shock due to small bowel ischaemia secondary to small…
…sing clinical deterioration in rural hospital patients. Mrs Wright, 86, presented with abdominal pain and a low temperature (early sepsis), but staff did not escalate when she deteriorated over four hours. No doctor rev…
86y · Male·Cardiac arrest triggered by electrolyte imbalance and sepsis secondary to compli…
An 86-year-old man with significant comorbidities died in a low-care nursing home from complications of an incarcerated umbilical hernia with bowel ischaemia, sepsis, and …
74y · Male·cardiac arrhythmia in an elderly man with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease …
…ic obstructive pulmonary disease, hypertension, and chronic kidney disease, died from cardiac arrhythmia following COVID-19 infection while imprisoned at Acacia Prison. He had received appropriate medical management ini…
80y · Female·peritonitis due to sigmoid resection margin leak following extended right hemico…
June Olive Pegg, 80, died from peritonitis following anastomotic leak after extended right hemicolectomy for colonic cancer. Critical delays in diagnosis occ…
83y · Male·pneumonia and severe acute respiratory distress syndrome caused by Legionella ba…
An 83-year-old man died from pneumonia and respiratory distress caused by Legionella bacterium. He presented with abdominal symptoms and was initially misdiagnosed as having aspiration pneumonia rather than community-acq…
54y · Female·unascertained
…g an escorted walk in hospital grounds. She had been an involuntary patient admitted on 7 September 2017 following multiple suicide attempts. Though found wet and distressed (suggesting attempted drowning) by the Salvat…
21y · Female·Multiple injuries sustained from being struck by a train; death by suicide while…
Alana Goldsmith, a 21-year-old woman with long-standing anorexia nervosa, died by suicide on 22 July 2011 after stepping in front of a train at Summer Hill Railway Station. She was admitted to Wesley Eating Disorder Clin…
46y · Male·sepsis following haemorrhoidectomy
46-year-old Justin Mark Dobson died from sepsis following a routine haemorrhoidectomy on 17 July 2019. He was discharged to the ward overnight but deteriorated si…
7y · Female·multiorgan failure due to fulminant sepsis (Streptococcus pyogenes)
…ment. She presented with gastrointestinal symptoms, fever, cold extremities and lethargy but was triaged as low-acuity (category 4). Critical missed opportunities occurred: a junior doctor performed only a focused eye e…
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