34y · Male·aspiration pneumonia following seizure with concomitant global severe anoxic enc…
Kenneth Strangways, a 34-year-old Aboriginal man with post-traumatic epilepsy, organic brain damage from head injuries, alcoholism and psychiatric illness, died from aspirat…
34y · Male·Hypoxic/ischaemic brain injury following resuscitated cardiac arrest and hanging
…en, a 34-year-old man with complex psychiatric diagnoses including borderline personality disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and schizophrenia, died by hanging in the courtyard of a secure extended care unit afte…
22y · Male·Airway obstruction due to laryngeal abscess and laryngeal chondronecrosis due to…
…table, interpreted his progressive respiratory distress as anxiety. He deteriorated overnight and died in cardiac arrest. Had appropriate ENT assessment occurred on 13 July, Kyle would likely have had his airway secured…
21y · Male·Complications of blunt head injury resulting from at least two separate acts of …
Baylen Pendergast, 21 months old, died from complications of blunt head injury sustained in two separate traumatic incidents (17 and 28 November 2013). The coroner found injuries were non-accidental and resulted from si…
44y · Male·pneumonia (with multiple left-sided rib fractures as the antecedent cause)
…ed lactate 12.7 mmol/L, leukopenia, acute kidney injury) but was managed on a trauma pathway focusing on traumatic injuries rather than the underlying medical emergency. Despite an ABG at 03:35 showing severe lactic aci…
18y · Male·Incised wound to right axilla with complete transection of basilic vein, brachia…
Thomas Redman, aged 18, sustained a catastrophic laceration to his right axilla involving complete transection of major arteries and veins after putting his arm through a glass window at a rural property near Gloucester,…
40y · Male·Unascertained; opioid withdrawal-related seizure or cardiac arrhythmia could not…
…eroin addiction, died in Melbourne Assessment Prison on 18 February 2019 from unascertained causes. He was arrested on 12 February after erratic driving, underwent police restraint with baton strikes and OC spray, then w…
33y · Male·Pelvic crush injury sustained while working at an underground coal mine
Jason Blee, a 33-year-old experienced miner and trainer at Moranbah North Mine in Queensland, was fatally crushed on 9 April 2007 when a shuttle car pinned him against a rib (wall) in a narrow underground heading. Follow…
0y · Female·Extensive cerebral destruction as a result of fractured skull following accident…
Isabella Wren Diefenbach, a 7-week-old infant, died from head injuries sustained when she fell from her father's arms after he stepped through a severely decayed timber board on the front verandah of the family's rented …
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