140 results for “chronic obstructive pulmonary disease”
64y · Male·Heart failure secondary to alcohol related liver disease, coronary obstructive p…
Emanuel Mavridis, aged 64, died of heart failure secondary to alcohol-related liver disease, COPD, and ischaemic/alcoholic cardiomyopathy. He presented to Royal Adelaide Hospital hypotensive with m…
62y · Male·Multi-organ failure following surgical repair of ruptured abdominal aortic aneur…
…ul Rodda, a 62-year-old long-term prisoner with extensive medical comorbidities including ischaemic heart disease, COPD, and a known abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), presented with chest pain in September 2015. Imaging …
59y · Male·disseminated carcinoma due to right lung carcinoma
Rex Harold, a 59-year-old Aboriginal man with schizophrenia, alcohol-induced brain injury, chronic obstructive airways disease, and diabetes, died in custody from disseminated small cell lung carcinoma. H…
69y · Male·plastic bag asphyxia and mixed drug toxicity (oxycodone and pentobarbitone)
…e) while under home detention bail with electronic monitoring. He had a complex medical history including chronic obstructive airways disease, chronic pain, depression, and recent psychiatric assessment revealing parano…
80y · Male·Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, with dementia, diabetes mellitus and hyp…
An 80-year-old man with extensive medical comorbidities (atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, dementia, diabetes, hypertension, COAD, previous MI with bypass grafts) died in custody at Long Bay Hosp…
82y · Male·Ischaemic and hypertensive heart disease
An 82-year-old man with extensive medical comorbidities including ischaemic heart disease, triple vessel coronary artery disease (previously bypass grafted), diabetes, chronic kidney disease, and…
60y · Male·Congestive Cardiac Failure
A 60-year-old Aboriginal man with end-stage COPD, congestive cardiac failure, and ischaemic heart disease died in prison custody. He likely suffered cardiac collapse around 8:30-9:00pm on 25 October 2014, presse…
62y · Male·Ischaemic heart disease due to coronary atherosclerosis
Peter Albert Begg, a 62-year-old prisoner, died of ischaemic heart disease due to severe coronary atherosclerosis with contributing dothiepin toxicity. He collapsed while pushing a…
62y · Male·Congestive Cardiac Failure in a man with Ischaemic and Hypertensive Heart Diseas…
…ac failure precipitated by acute myocardial infarction in the setting of ischaemic and hypertensive heart disease. He had metastatic cholangiocarcinoma and WHO Class III obesity. He was admitted to St Vincent's Hospital…
31y · Male·ischaemic heart disease
A 31-year-old male prisoner with significant pre-existing cardiac disease (previous myocardial infarction with stenting, cardiomegaly, left ventricular hypertrophy, coronary ather…
89y · Male·multi-organ failure on a background of advanced dementia and small cell lung can…
…y at Yatala Labour Prison. He entered prison aged 83 with complex medical needs including ischaemic heart disease, COPD, and diabetes. Over his six-year incarceration, he received regular medical care from prison medica…
81y · Male·Coronary atherosclerosis
…ged 81, died of coronary atherosclerosis while imprisoned at Wolston Correctional Centre. He had multiple chronic conditions including previous strokes, atrial fibrillation, diabetes, and severe three-vessel coronary ar…
51y · Male·congestive cardiac failure in association with ischaemic and hypertensive heart …
Tom Foski, a 51-year-old man with chronic schizophrenia, died from congestive cardiac failure associated with ischaemic and hypertensive heart dise…
94y · Female·Complications of a fractured neck of femur sustained in an unwitnessed in-hospit…
A 94-year-old woman with significant cardiopulmonary comorbidities died from complications of a fractured femur sustained in an unwitnessed hospital fall. De…
73y · Female·coronary atherosclerosis
…ticoagulant dosing and medication choices were appropriate and necessary given her severe coronary artery disease and thrombotic risk. The haematoma was difficult to detect clinically and post-mortem analysis confirmed …
58y · Male·pneumonia on a background of adenocarcinoma of the lung stage 4, ischaemic heart…
58-year-old male prisoner died from pneumonia complicated by stage 4 lung adenocarcinoma, ischaemic heart disease, and chronic emphysema. He presented with critical leg ischaemia requiring femoral endarterectomy, develo…
63y · Female·Cardiomegaly and biventricular dilatation
A 63-year-old woman with severe cardiac disease (cardiomegaly, biventricular dilatation, and chronic cardiac failure) presented to a rural emergency depa…
46y · Female·Dilated cardiomyopathy (acute complication with sudden cardiac arrhythmia)
… woman with bipolar/schizoaffective disorder, poorly controlled type 2 diabetes, morbid obesity, severe obstructive sleep apnoea, and pulmonary hypertension died from acute dilated cardiomyopathy with sudden arrhythmia.…
68y · Male·Sudden cardiac death due to congestive cardiac failure and chronic obstructive p…
…sible. While medical evidence suggests CPR would likely have been unsuccessful given his advanced cardiac disease, the failure to attempt resuscitation violated his expressed wishes. The facility has since implemented c…
45y · Female·Bronchiectasis
A 45-year-old Aboriginal woman with severe bronchiectasis, COPD, and cor pulmonale died at a sobering-up shelter after police protective custody. She had 15 hospital admissions in 2015 for acute exacerbations related to …
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