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Male·Multiple injuries sustained as a front seat passenger in a motor vehicle acciden…
Scott Livermore died as a front passenger in a motor vehicle accident caused by the driver, Maria Waldock, who experienced a seizure while driving. Waldock had been diagnosed with localisation-related epilepsy in 2006 an…
31y · Male·Subarachnoid haemorrhage due to or as a consequence of a ruptured large fusiform…
A 31-year-old man with long-standing intravenous drug use and hepatitis C died in prison custody from a ruptured mycotic aneurysm causing subarachnoid hemorrhage. He collapsed in his cell after lock-down without prior wa…
47y · Male·Intracerebral haemorrhage secondary to heroin withdrawal in a patient with sever…
Roy Barnes, a 47-year-old man with chronic heroin use, hepatitis C, and severe coronary atherosclerosis, died from an intracerebral haemorrhage while in police custody. He was held in the Southport watch house for 55 hou…
82y · Female·Complications from hypoglycaemic brain damage and cerebral vascular accident
Margaret Allan Johnston, 82-year-old admitted for UTI and confusion, was found comatose on 4 September 2006 with severe hypoglycaemia (glucose 0.8 mmol/L) despite being non-diabetic. Blood tests revealed high insulin and…
55y · Male·Haemorrhagic brain stem infarction due to hypertensive heart disease
Philip Baker, a 55-year-old man with multiple comorbidities including hypertensive heart disease, atherosclerosis, and chronic kidney disease requiring dialysis, was admitted to Rockhampton Hospital with severe headache …
Male·Multiple injuries from motor vehicle trauma (head-on collision with truck)
Peter and Pauline Maczkowiack were killed in a head-on collision with a truck on the Bruce Highway near Marlborough, Queensland on 27 December 2006. The truck driver, Donald MacFarlane, had epilepsy. The coroner found th…
54y · Male·Drowning after falling overboard from the Shanendale at Otter Reef
Peter Trcka, an experienced 54-year-old fisherman with an artificial leg and history of alcohol-related seizures, disappeared from a trawler anchored at Otter Reef on 1 March 2006. He was last seen at 4:30am appearing we…
64y · Male·Sepsis and lung collapse precipitated by burns to 35% of body sustained while sm…
Michael Warren, a 64-year-old man with rapidly progressive Motor Neurone Disease (MND), died from sepsis and respiratory complications following severe burns sustained while smoking in a hospital courtyard. He was alone,…
20y · Female·Head injuries due to or as a consequence of motor vehicle accident
Chloe Louise Shelley, aged 20, died from head injuries sustained in a motor vehicle crash on 9 February 2007, succumbing to her injuries on 5 April 2007. The driver, Ms Angela Connor, was travelling faster than the speed…
58y · Male·drowning
Trevor Mountford-Smith, a 58-year-old nuclear engineer, disappeared during a holiday on 27 March 2003 and is presumed to have drowned. He had recently been diagnosed with significant cognitive impairment affecting inform…
32y · Female·Hypoxic brain injury due to a combination of factors arising from subdural haema…
A 32-year-old fit and healthy woman died from hypoxic brain injury following complications of spinal anaesthesia for caesarean section. She developed a subdural haematoma (rare complication) and persistent post-dural pun…
48y · Male·Undetermined
Maxwell Marshall, aged 48, died in December 2003 from undetermined causes after receiving escalating doses of oxycodone (Oxycontin) for post-Guillain-Barré neuropathic pain reaching 680mg daily—among the highest 1% of pr…
54y · Male·Global cerebral hypoxic injury due to or as a consequence of status epilepticus
Terence James Robinson, 54, died from status epilepticus causing global cerebral hypoxic injury after 16 days at Belmont Private Hospital. He was admitted following a violent altercation with police and attempted suicide…
0y · Male·Global hypoxic brain necrosis as a result of non-accidental violent shaking of t…
Liam Richard Vidler-Cumming, a three-month-old, died from global hypoxic brain necrosis resulting from non-accidental violent shaking (shaken baby syndrome). He was examined by a neurosurgeon, Dr C., at 9:30am and appear…
68y · Male·pulmonary embolism secondary to immobilisation as a result of subdural haemorrha…
A 68-year-old man with cardiac history presented to Rockhampton Hospital after a fall with head trauma, found unconscious with alcohol intoxication. CT scanning revealed a right subdural haematoma and skull fracture. Con…
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