895 results for “head injury”
0y · Male·Head injury in the setting of chronic subdural haemorrhage
Kaleb Baylis-Clarke, a 17-week-old infant, presented to hospital on 14 January 2016 with a head lump, vomiting, raised fontanelle and reduced milk intake. Cranial ultrasound showed fluid in subdural spac…
26y · Male·Head injury
A 26-year-old male died from head injury sustained during a skydiving jump. He completed initial training successfully and performed his firs…
53y · Female·cardiorespiratory arrest in a person with blunt force head injury, end-stage liv…
… 2013 aged 53. She had end-stage liver disease with hepatic encephalopathy, had suffered recent blunt force head injuries of unclear origin, and had high blood methadone levels. She presented to Blacktown Hospital ED on …
71y · Male·Cause of death could not be determined. Possibilities included positional asphyx…
…determine a definitive cause of death—possibilities included positional asphyxia (given his obesity), blunt head injury, or a concurrent cardiac event. This case highlights risks of operating unregistered, poorly maintai…
51y · Female·head injury in a woman with evidence of ligature strangulation
Joanne Elizabeth Howell, a 51-year-old woman, died on 21 April 2007 from head injury sustained in conjunction with ligature strangulation. The coroner found on the balance of probabilit…
34y · Male·Complications of head injury sustained in motorcycle crash
A 34-year-old man died from complications of severe traumatic brain injury sustained in a motorcycle crash on 11 November 2013, with death occurring 2.5 months later on 29 January 2…
62y · Male·Blunt head injuries sustained in a workplace tree-felling accident
…y Brady, a 62-year-old experienced arborist with decades of tree-felling experience, died from severe blunt head trauma sustained in a workplace tree-felling accident on 21 May 2015. He was admitted to Royal Brisbane Hos…
65y · Male·Traumatic high cervical spine injury in the setting of frontal head impact in a …
A 65-year-old man with ankylosing spondylitis died from traumatic cervical spine injury after being arrested for public drunkenness by a single-officer police patrol. During arrest and transport…
82y · Male·Traumatic head injury due to head striking the floor
An 82-year-old man with Alzheimer's dementia residing in a secure aged care facility died from traumatic head injury sustained when he was pushed by another resident during an interaction in a hallway. The deceased ha…
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…
81y · Male·Head injuries sustained in a motor vehicle incident (pedestrian) in a man with i…
…ular disease was struck by a motor vehicle while crossing Cranbourne Road in Frankston. He sustained severe head injuries with subarachnoid and subdural haemorrhage, diffuse axonal injury, and a fractured fibula. He was …
26y · Male·Closed head injury with extradural and subdural haemorrhage resulting from a sku…
26-year-old Marcio Jose Lay Nheu died from a closed head injury with extradural haemorrhage caused by a blow to the head with a Maglite torch at Karama Shopping Cen…
56y · Male·Pulmonary thromboemboli due to deep vein thrombosis due to immobility due to hea…
… concreter died from pulmonary embolism secondary to deep vein thrombosis and immobility following a severe head injury sustained when struck by a concrete pump hose that had undergone hose whip. The hose blockage and su…
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…
9y · Male·Penetrating head wound to right temporal bone due to motorcycle trauma
Joel Timothy Birse, aged 9, died from a penetrating head wound to the right temporal bone sustained in a motorcycle collision at the Blackall Show on 6 May 2007. He…
42y · Male·Multiple traumatic injuries of head and chest sustained in a motorcycle crash
…riding a Honda 125cc motorcycle on a P1 novice licence when he lost control on a sweeping bend and collided head-on with an oncoming vehicle. Investigation found the motorcycle and other vehicle were roadworthy, road con…
51y · Male·Blunt head injury sustained in the circumstances of a seizure
John Jansen, a 51-year-old man with poorly controlled epilepsy and chronic alcoholism, died from blunt head injury sustained during a seizure in his home. He had not taken his anti-epileptic medication (Epilim) for …
55y · Male·Head and chest injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash
Christopher Darren Dodd, aged 55, died from head and chest injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash on 14 February 2021 in rural Tasmania. He was travelling…
55y · Male·head injury sustained in a single motorcycle crash
…with multiple comorbidities (bipolar disorder, OCD, asthma, bronchiectasis, methadone dependency) died from head injury sustained in a motorcycle crash. He was riding 3 weeks after a previous motorcycle crash causing cla…
37y · Male·Chest Injury (including Laceration of the Heart) and Head Injury
…ontrol while colliding with another vehicle. He crashed into scrub and a signpost, sustaining severe chest injury with laceration of the heart and severe head injury. His helmet was found undone some distance away, sugge…
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