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91y · Female·Sub-dural haemorrhage due to head injury due to fall
A 91-year-old woman was admitted to hospital after accidental paracetamol overdose and was found to have had a recent right occipital lobe infarction. While receiving appropriate care, she fell from her hospital bed at t…
10y · Female·Head injuries due to fall from a bunk bed
Elise Neville, aged 10, fell from a non-compliant bunk bed and sustained a head injury. At her first ED presentation to Caloundra Hospital at 3:25am, Dr D.—a junior house officer 19 hours into a 24-hour shift—failed to p…
66y · Male·Coronary atherosclerosis
Frank Maurice Whittington, aged 66, died from coronary atherosclerosis on 24 February 2004, shortly after day surgery to replace a catheter on his intrathecal morphine pump. Dr Rossato and RN Couper administered a 0.26ml…
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…
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 Coroneos, at 9:30am and …
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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