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VIChome2021-05-07

Finding into death of Arthur John Smith

91y · Male·Gunshot wound to the head

Arthur Smith, 91, fatally shot his wife of 68 years before taking his own life. He had recently undergone cardiac surgery and expressed concerns about losing independence and being forced into care. The couple faced fina…

cardiothoracic surgeryrehabilitation medicine
SAhospital2020-06-25

Coroner's Finding: ASHTON Lorraine June

78y · Female·advanced dementia (end stage)

…vanced dementia with appropriate psychiatric and geriatric input, clear communication with families about disease progression and treatment goals, and appropriate use of involuntary treatment orders when necessary for s…

psychiatrygeriatric medicineoxazepam
SAhospital2022-03-29

Coroner's Finding: Duthie, Norman Alec

96y · Male·hospital acquired pneumonia on a background of advanced Alzheimer's dementia

Norman Alec Duthie, a 96-year-old man with advanced Alzheimer's dementia, died of hospital-acquired pneumonia following admission to Noarlunga Hospital. He was placed on a Mental Health Act Inpatient Treatment Order due …

geriatric medicinepsychiatry
TASaged care2024-10-22

Coroner's Finding: Whish-Wilson, Leslie Bruce

76y · Male·hospital-acquired pneumonia, age-related frailty, consequences of left neck of f…

Leslie Bruce Whish-Wilson, 76, sustained a fall in his aged care room in January 2024, leading to a right femoral neck fracture requiring surgical repair. Post-operatively, he developed hospital-acquired pneumonia compli…

geriatric medicineorthopaedic surgerysystemdelay
NSWhospital2025-05-28

Inquest into the Death of Garry Small

71y · Male·Subdural haemorrhage on a background of an unwitnessed fall and anticoagulation …

A 71-year-old man with diabetes, ischaemic heart disease and osteomyelitis presented with fever and hypoglycaemia. He met Red Zone sepsis criteria …

emergency medicinegeriatric medicinemedicationdelayceftriaxone
SAaged care2016-08-04

Coroner's Finding: CRAFTER Lorraine

88y · Female·General inanition on a background of advanced dementia and chronic renal failure

An 88-year-old woman with advanced dementia and chronic renal failure died of general inanition at an aged care facility 14 days after admission. She had been under guardianship orders and transferred from hospital to re…

geriatric medicine
SAaged care2017-04-19

Coroner's Finding: HAYDEN Phillip Maxwell

80y · Male·General inanition due to advanced Alzheimer's dementia

Phillip Maxwell Hayden, aged 80, died of general inanition due to advanced Alzheimer's dementia at a nursing home. He had been admitted to hospital in June 2014 with behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia, re…

geriatric medicinepsychiatrymorphine
VICaged care2023-03-22

Finding into death of S M

91y · Male·Complications of cerebrovascular and ischaemic heart disease in a man post anaph…

A 91-year-old man with known diltiazem allergy was prescribed diltiazem by a geriatrician despite documented allergy records. The geriatrician relied on the patient's verbal denial of allergies despite significant dement…

geriatric medicinegeneral practicediagnosticmedicationdiltiazem
SAaged care2018-05-17

Coroner's Finding: BAUM Dorothy Mavis

93y · Female·blunt trauma with head injury on a background of ischaemic heart disease

Dorothy Mavis Baum, 93, died at Flinders Medical Centre from blunt trauma with head injury following an unprovoked assault by another nursing home resident with a plastic chain. Critical clinical failures occurred: the n…

geriatric medicineemergency medicinediagnosticcommunicationoxycodone
SAhospital2020-06-18

Coroner's Finding: TUCKER Colin Pryor

96y · Male·general inanition on a background of advanced dementia, chronic congestive cardi…

Colin Pryor Tucker, aged 96, died of general inanition on a background of advanced dementia, chronic congestive cardiac failure and pneumonia at Repatriation General Hospital. He was admitted with urinary retention, acut…

psychiatrygeriatric medicineantipsychotic medication
SAaged care2025-09-11

Coroner's Finding: Glenn, Millicent

89y · Female·acute-on-chronic renal failure on a background of ischaemic heart disease, hyper…

An 89-year-old Aboriginal woman with chronic renal impairment and congestive cardiac failure was prescribed gentamicin intramuscularly for a urinary tract infection caused by Klebsiella aerogenes. Gentamicin is nephrotox…

general practicegeriatric medicinemedicationdiagnosticgentamicin
NSWaged care2019-09-27

Inquest into the death of Epenesa PAHIVA

87y · Female·combined effects of ischaemic heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary di…

…arrange hospital transfer immediately or document his concerns. The patient's pre-existing cardiovascular disease was the primary cause of death; the healing burns contributed minimally. Multiple system failures in docu…

dermatologygeneral practicediagnosticcommunicationbleach
VIChome2025-11-18

Finding into death of JZA

65y · Female·Combined effects of acute pneumonia, pancreatitis, urinary tract infection, and …

A 65-year-old woman with chronic alcohol use disorder, multiple comorbidities, and progressive functional decline died from combined effects of pneumonia, pancreatitis, urinary tract infection, and severe pressure ulcers…

geriatric medicineinfectious diseasessystemcommunicationpholcodine
QLDhospital2018-08-20

RD - Non-inquest findings

64y · Male·Septic shock secondary to urosepsis (Pseudomonas and Stenotropomonas maltophilia…

RD, a 64-year-old man with diabetes, amputation, and COPD, presented to a private hospital emergency department with suspected sepsis (vomiting, diarrhoea, hypotension, acute kidney injury, elevated troponin, hyperkalaem…

emergency medicineintensive carediagnosticmedicationintravenous normal saline
NTaged care2020-12-18

Inquest into the death of Barbara Francis

78y · Female·cardiorespiratory failure, ischaemic and hypertensive heart disease together wit…

Barbara Francis, a 78-year-old resident with dementia at Pearl Supported Care in the dementia unit (Dinah), was punched by another resident (Mr A) on 4 September 2018 and fell backward onto her right hip, sustaining an o…

geriatric medicineorthopaedic surgerysystemcommunication
SAhospital2021-06-30

Coroner's Finding: VOIVODICH Guido

84y · Male·general inanition on a background of end-stage dementia and a fractured neck of …

84-year-old man with end-stage dementia died from general inanition following a fractured neck of femur sustained while under a Level 2 Inpatient Treatment Order. He was admitted in January 2019 with confusion and agitat…

psychiatrygeriatric medicineapixaban
VICaged carePodcast2019-08-23

Finding into death of John Reimers

63y · Male·complications of an inverted positional event (asphyxia from airway occlusion)

A 63-year-old man with previous stroke and left-sided paralysis fell headfirst into his bedside drawer while attempting to open it from his motorised wheelchair. He became trapped with his airway occluded. An enrolled nu…

geriatric medicineemergency medicinediagnosticcommunicationduloxetine
TASaged care2023-06-27

Coroner's Finding: Guy, Peter Joseph

82y · Male·hypostatic pneumonia

An 82-year-old man with dementia and multiple comorbidities died of hypostatic pneumonia following complications from a fall at a residential aged care facility. He sustained an L2 compression fracture from an unwitnesse…

geriatric medicineemergency medicinesystemprocedural
SAaged care2026-06-19

Coroner's Finding: Fowle, Colleen Margaret

78y · Female·urinary tract infection and pneumonia on a background of facial fractures and de…

A 78-year-old woman with mixed dementia living in aged care suffered an unwitnessed fall on 22 March 2023, sustaining facial fractures and eye laceration. The fractures were not identified during her initial hospital ass…

general practicegeriatric medicinediagnostic
SA2006-05-22

Coroner's Finding: GEORGE Patricia Nina

81y · Female·aspiration pneumonia, exacerbation of chronic obstructive airways disease (emphy…

…al health legislation at Glenside Campus, died from aspiration pneumonia, COPD exacerbation and congestive heart failure. A critical ambulance transfer delay occurred when her initial request (5:45 am) was cancelled due…

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