115 results for “ambulance transport”
24y · Male·Head, neck and chest injuries sustained in motorcycle collision
A 24-year-old male died from head, neck and chest injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash on Old Palmwoods Road, Queensland, after evading a police intercept attempt. The rider was affected by cannabis at the time and w…
Unsurvivable traumatic injuries from blunt force impact with motor vehicle; pred…
…d multiple injuries. Despite appropriate emergency medical response including first aid, oxygen therapy, ambulance transport, emergency craniectomy, intubation and critical care at Royal Melbourne Hospital and Royal Chi…
53y · Male·severe burns
… power cuts at his caravan park causing darkness (triggering trauma from childhood sexual abuse). Police transported him to Bairnsdale Hospital but failed to contact mental health triage or remain until psychiatric asse…
45y · Male·Traumatic neck and hypoxic brain injuries suffered in a high-speed powerboat rac…
Daryl Hamilton, a highly experienced 45-year-old powerboat racer, died on 23 February 2009 after being ejected from his racing boat during a high-speed drag race on Kogarah Bay, Sydney. At approximately 100 mph, excessiv…
39y · Male·Excited delirium, probably caused by amphetamine toxicity-induced psychosis. Dea…
…ecognition as medical emergency, rapid restraint with adequate personnel, early medical involvement, and transport to hospital rather than prolonged field management.
2y · Female·septicaemia
…servations and a 'wait and see' approach. The child deteriorated over subsequent days and was eventually transported by ambulance (taking 3+ hours over dirt roads) and arrived in extremis, requiring ventilation. The sen…
39y · Male·Self-inflicted death by hanging
A 39-year-old man with longstanding Bipolar I Disorder died by hanging on 28 December 2017, shortly after police attended a domestic disturbance at his mother's home. He had expressed suicidal ideation to his treating ps…
Female·Coronary atherosclerosis with ischaemic small bowel and Alzheimer's disease
Marjorie Joyce Tanner, an elderly woman with Alzheimer's disease, presented to Maryborough Hospital with a three-day history of abdominal pain, distension, and vomiting. Initially diagnosed with simple constipation and t…
26y · Female·Pulmonary embolism as a consequence of dislodged deep vein thrombosis
Naomi Smith, aged 26, died from pulmonary embolism caused by dislodged deep vein thrombosis while in ICU at Royal Darwin Hospital. She had complex mental health needs (BPD, PTSD, depression) and morbid obesity. The criti…
47y · Female·Cardiac arrhythmia due to severe coronary artery atherosclerosis
A 47-year-old woman presented to a level one rural hospital with chest pain. The doctor diagnosed muscular pain (99% certain) and discharged her without troponin testing or admission, despite chest pain being the present…
54y · Male·quetiapine toxicity in a man with ischaemic heart disease
Shane Pappas, a 54-year-old man with ischaemic heart disease, died from quetiapine toxicity after deliberately overdosing on multiple medications on 29 June 2021. He had experienced a recent relationship breakdown and pr…
[18, 21, 23, 19, 22, 19]y · ["male", "female", "male", "male", "male", "female"]·MDMA toxicity (one case mixed MDMA and cocaine toxicity)
This inquest examined six deaths from MDMA toxicity after electronic dance music festivals in NSW between December 2017 and January 2019: Hoang Nathan Tran (18), Diana Nguyen (21), Joseph Pham (23), Callum Brosnan (19), …
39y · Male·Effects of fire (self-immolation)
William Gourley, a 39-year-old Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander man with a long history of mental illness, depression, cannabis dependence, and psychosis, presented to the Latrobe Regional Hospital ED on 6 March 202…
4y · Female·Haemorrhage due to aorto-oesophageal fistula caused by ingestion of a button bat…
A 4-year-old girl died from aorto-oesophageal fistula and haemorrhage caused by a lithium button battery lodged in her oesophagus for at least 3 days. Critical diagnostic failures occurred: the initial GP failed to consi…
asphyxia sequential to hanging (all three cases); Charles Barlow: schizophrenia …
Three linked suicide cases spanning February 2004 to October 2005 in Far North Queensland mental health services. Charles Barlow (36, Aboriginal) was denied admission despite requesting transfer to Cairns Base Hospital M…
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