208 results for “fall with head injury”
59y · Male·aspiration pneumonia
A 59-year-old man with severe acquired brain injury and dysphagia from a 2005 motorcycle crash died from aspiration pneumonia. Two…
75y · Male·bilateral subdural haematoma due to fall
Walter Robert Hanslow, a 75-year-old man with Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and significant mobility limitations, sustained a fall at a nursi…
91y · Female·Sub-dural haemorrhage due to head injury due to fall
…suffered a fatal acute subdural haemorrhage. The coroner found the medical and nursing care to be excellent with no aspects warranting criticism. The fall was deemed a tragic accident as the patient gave no warning of he…
79y · Male·head injuries sustained in a fall from a bicycle
A 79-year-old man died from head injuries sustained in a bicycle fall on a rural road. While riding at approximately 40 km/h on a descent, h…
84y · Female·acute left subdural haematoma
Marie Janet Ford, 84 years old with dementia, fell from a chair at a residential aged care facility and sustained an acute left subdural haemat…
70y · Male·head injury
A 70-year-old man with ischaemic heart disease and cardiomyopathy collapsed at work after experiencing dizziness, striking his hea…
14y · Male·HEAD INJURIES
DK, aged 14, died on 14 January 2025 from head injuries sustained when he jumped from a five-metre embankment at the Ovens River near Bright, Victoria, du…
82y · Female·complications of a closed head injury (operated) sustained in a fall
An 82-year-old woman died from complications of a closed head injury sustained when she fell from a wheelchair while being transported at a zoo. Her husband had left her…
75y · Male·acute right subdural haemorrhage sustained in a fall
George Triantafilopoulos, a 75-year-old man on warfarin after aortic valve replacement, suffered two head strikes within 24 hours—first falling onto concrete at a supermarket on 14 August 2014, then falling onto c…
57y · Male·acute subdural haematoma, cause undetermined (could result from trauma, fall, se…
…ubdural haematoma (brain bleeding). He was found unresponsive after an evening of heavy alcohol consumption with his housemate Lawrence Kean, who punched him during an altercation over music volume. Kean delayed seeking …
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-accidental tra…
57y · Male·Right acute subdural haematoma following a fall
Gary Desmond Frost, a 57-year-old man with intellectual disability, dementia, and schizophrenia, died from a right acute subdural haematoma following …
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 a…
78y · Male·Subarachnoid haemorrhage (bilateral) and occipital fracture
A 78-year-old man with vascular and Alzheimer's dementia died from bilateral subarachnoid haemorrhage and occipital fracture susta…
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 alc…
62y · Male·end stage renal failure complicating oxalate crystal nephropathy with contributi…
Stewart Anthony Leane, 62, died from end-stage renal failure due to oxalate crystal nephropathy with contributing head injury. He had complex medical needs including dialysis-dependent kidney failure, schizop…
69y · Female·subdural haematoma
A 69-year-old woman sustained a head injury from a witnessed fall, striking her head on a brick wall. She lost consciousness, experienced headac…
30y · Male·Head injury; severe traumatic brain injury with global cerebral ischaemic injury…
Leigh Joseph Riley, a 30-year-old man with intellectual disability and substance abuse history, died from severe head injury following a physical alte…
56y · Male·head injuries
Mark Lowther, a 56-year-old plumber, died from head injuries when a tree he was felling with a chainsaw and excavator struck him. The excavator's Roll Over Pro…
62y · Female·subacute subdural haematoma due to a closed head injury sustained in a fall from…
A 62-year-old woman on warfarin for a mechanical aortic valve sustained a head injury from a fall. A CT scan on day 5 post-injury identified a small extradural haematoma, but the radiolo…
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