144 results for “traumatic fall”
0y · Male·Traumatic head injury
A five-month-old boy died from traumatic head injury. Initial medical disagreement about whether injuries were from accidental fall or non-accide…
68y · Male·Head injuries (multiple skull fractures with subdural and subarachnoid haemorrha…
A 68-year-old man died from head injuries sustained in a fall onto rocks while fishing at Frenchman's Bluff, South Australia. He was found face-down in a rock pool with …
32y · Female·multiple blunt traumatic injuries sustained in a fall from height
…sa Fisher, a 32-year-old experienced nurse and bushwalker, died from multiple blunt injuries sustained in a fall of approximately 50 metres whilst attempting to summit Federation Peak in Southwest National Park, Tasmania…
60y · Female·acute cerebral bleed resulting from blunt trauma and late haemorrhagic progressi…
Gwenith Elkington, aged 60, died from acute cerebral bleed resulting from haemorrhagic progression of a traumatic brain injury sustained in a bathroom fall on 21 September 2015. The injury caused a contre coup contusio…
78y · Male·Subarachnoid haemorrhage (bilateral) and occipital fracture
…standards appropriate. The family expressed satisfaction with care provided. The death resulted from the traumatic injury itself rather than any deficiency in clinical management or supervision.
65y · Male·Traumatic high cervical spine injury in the setting of frontal head impact in a …
A 65-year-old man with ankylosing spondylitis died from traumatic cervical spine injury after being arrested for public drunkenness by a single-officer police patrol. Dur…
40y · Male·Head Injury
…psy could not definitively determine whether death resulted from the initial pick handle strike or from the fall onto concrete. The coroner found Williams acted in lawful self-defence based on available evidence. No evid…
82y · Male·hypostatic pneumonia
…ld man with dementia and multiple comorbidities died of hypostatic pneumonia following complications from a fall at a residential aged care facility. He sustained an L2 compression fracture from an unwitnessed bed fall o…
32y · Male·Multiple traumatic crush injuries sustained in a rock fall
Nathaniel Owen Beesley, age 32, was killed on 17 March 2017 when crushed by a rock fall (approximately 44 tonnes) whilst performing manual scaling operations on the East Wall of the North Pit at …
73y · Male·Traumatic head, facial and chest injuries caused by fall down stairs at resident…
A 73-year-old man with Parkinson's disease and recent falls died from traumatic injuries after falling down six stairs while exiting a residential aged care facility …
68y · Female·Complications of a right subdural haemorrhage (palliated), sustained in a fall
Vanna Vassallo, a 68-year-old with schizophrenia, chronic comorbidities and documented high fall risk, died from complications of a subdural haemorrhage sustained in a fall at an aged mental health inpati…
86y · Male·progressive cognitive decline/decompensation and gastrointestinal haemorrhage
…-old man with Parkinson's disease and long-standing gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) sustained a traumatic brain injury from a fall at home on 3 July 2021. He was admitted to hospital on 6 July 2021 with subdura…
81y · Male·inanition complicating traumatic brain injury and disseminated malignancy
An 81-year-old man with metastatic bowel cancer suffered a traumatic brain injury from a fall, resulting in multiple intracerebral haemorrhages and cerebral contusions. He w…
72y · Male·Drowning following a traumatic closed head injury due to a fall down an embankme…
Robert John Robinson, a 72-year-old man with intellectual disability, died from drowning following a traumatic head injury sustained when he fell from an unfenced embankment into a creek at Rose Bay Park. He fell ap…
30y · Male·head injury sustained in a fall after being struck by crowd controller Henry Von…
Jerry Karamesinis, aged 30, died from fatal head injuries sustained in a fall outside a nightclub on 13 May 2007. He was struck by crowd controller Henry Vong after refusing entry and a…
85y · Female·Head injury due to a fall from a bus
…e driveway after standing to exit. The coroner found the manner and cause of death was head injury due to a fall from a bus. Clinical management at hospital was appropriate. The coroner identified a public safety matter:…
69y · Female·Injuries sustained in a motor vehicle collision (pedestrian)
…g a skull fracture with intracranial haemorrhage. She was taken to Alfred Hospital where scans confirmed traumatic brain injury. Respecting her Advance Care Directive against surgical procedures, she was extubated and p…
91y · Male·Hypostatic pneumonia due to traumatic fracture of C7 and subluxation of C6/7, re…
…n Care Home in Tasmania with complex medical history including Alzheimer's disease, osteoporosis, and prior falls. On 24 January 2015, he fell while seated on a lightweight plastic chair in an outdoor area with uneven gr…
0y · Female·Intracranial and intrapulmonary haemorrhage due to traumatic head injury from fa…
…h on 11 February 2016 at Gladstone Base Hospital from intracranial and intrapulmonary haemorrhage due to traumatic head injury from a fall, complicated by Group B Streptococcal sepsis. A nurse fell while carrying the ne…
93y · Male·general inanition on a background of cognitive impairment, congestive cardiac fa…
… heart failure, and chronic renal disease died of general inanition following a hip fracture sustained in a fall at an aged care facility. He was under a guardianship order with special powers. Post-operatively, he devel…
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