159 results for “intracranial injury”
55y · Male·Multiple injuries sustained in a fall from a height
…rwent neurosurgery for subdural haematoma and brain drainage, plus orthopaedic fixation for thoracic spine injury. Despite ICU care, he developed progressive brain swelling with signs of herniation and died 9 days post-i…
0y · Female·Subdural and subarachnoid haemorrhages due to late onset vitamin K deficiency bl…
…feeding, and vomiting at one month of age, initially misdiagnosed as sepsis. Imaging revealed extensive intracranial bleeding; INR was critically elevated at 10. Despite emergency transfer, ventilation, and treatment wit…
0y · Male·Head injury in the setting of labour
…cted standards. The coroner could not definitively establish preventability due to extensive additional intracranial injury, but emphasized the importance of anticipating subgaleal haemorrhage risk after traumatic delive…
24y · Male·depressed and linear fractures of the back and base of skull and fractures to th…
…ency response to severe head trauma and the critical clinical consequences of delayed discovery of serious injury.
82y · Male·Intracranial haemorrhage secondary to blunt force trauma (fall)
An 82-year-old man resident in a nursing home died from intracranial haemorrhage following a fall. He sustained two falls on 7 March 2009; the first was unwitnessed at 8.24…
30y · Male·Head injuries
Eoin Murray, aged 30, died from severe head injuries sustained when he fell striking his head on a bluestone gutter in Fitzroy early on 7 September 2013. He had been highly intoxicated (estimated BAC 0.13-0.21%) followin…
80y · Female·acute subdural haematoma following a fall while on warfarin for atrial fibrillat…
Mrs Bowerman, aged 80, fell at home on warfarin anticoagulation and sustained a minor head injury with no initial neurological signs. Paramedic Turnbull assessed her as requiring no transport (TNR), despi…
93y · Male·Intracranial haemorrhage in the setting of over-warfarinisation
…ally elevated at 10. Naproxen prescribed after the fall further increased warfarin effect. He developed intracranial haemorrhage and died. Key lessons: INR monitoring protocols must be robust with backup alerts if testin…
64y · Male·Subdural haematoma with mass effect following thrombolysis for acute myocardial …
…x medical history including diabetes, mental illness, chronic alcohol misuse, and previous traumatic brain injury was admitted with diabetic ketoacidosis and acute kidney injury. He developed acute myocardial infarction …
28y · Male·Multiple injuries following a motor vehicle crash while concurrently suffering f…
A 28-year-old Aboriginal man died from severe traumatic brain injury following a high-speed motor vehicle crash. He was unlicensed, driving another's vehicle, and had a blood …
55y · Male·Traumatic brain injury caused by blunt force to the head sustained in a fall
Rodney Bates, a 55-year-old in custody at Cessnock Correctional Centre, died from traumatic brain injury sustained in a fall on 2 April 2015. He had experienced recurrent unexplained loss of consciousness episod…
39y · Male·Complications following extradural haemorrhage (operated) sustained in an electr…
…ented to ED with GCS 13 but rapidly deteriorated to GCS 4 with fixed dilated pupil, indicating critical intracranial injury. CT imaging revealed large extradural haemorrhage with midline shift, base of skull fracture, an…
22y · Female·unsurvivable head injury
A 22-year-old experienced stable worker and amateur rider died from unsurvivable head injuries sustained when thrown from a horse during track work. The horse suffered a catastrophic leg fracture at approximately 66 km/h…
85y · Male·Intracranial haemorrhage in the setting of a fall in a man with multiple comorbi…
…en, approximately half the thrombolytic infusion had been administered. The thrombolysis caused massive intracranial haemorrhage and death. While preventability could not be established with certainty, critical opportuni…
81y · Male·Injuries sustained in a motor vehicle collision (pedestrian)
…le crossing Thompson Road in North Geelong to access a bus stop. He sustained severe head injuries with intracranial haemorrhage and bilateral haemothoraces and died at Alfred Hospital. The collision occurred at a locati…
5y · Female·chronic hydrocephalus
…ntal delay. Post-mortem examination confirmed death from chronic hydrocephalus; progressive increase in intracranial pressure had reduced brain size to extremely thin tissue. The coroner found no evidence of injury or di…
35y · Female·Global cerebral ischaemic injury in the setting of post caecal resection for col…
…t's Hospital where imaging revealed brain swelling and herniation. She died from global cerebral ischaemic injury. The cause of cerebral ischaemia was not definitively identified but may have been related to hypoxia from…
50y · Female·Irreversible hypoxic brain injury sustained during surgery for meningioma resect…
…, a 50-year-old woman with Fragile X Syndrome and a brain meningioma, died from irreversible hypoxic brain injury sustained during tumour resection surgery. Significant intraoperative blood loss (4,500ml estimated) occur…
48y · Male·subdural haemorrhage
…l lessons include recognition that minor head trauma in intoxicated patients can cause life-threatening intracranial bleeding, and that baseline cognitive impairment from alcohol may mask neurological deterioration. Earl…
41y · Male·Complications of blunt force injuries of the head
Colin Parker, aged 41, suffered an unwitnessed fall with head injury while experiencing syncope from atrial fibrillation in early May 2014. He was admitted to Campbelltown Hos…
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