537 results for “sepsis”
71y · Male·Sepsis due to bronchopneumonia and sacral ulcer
Mr John Knight, aged 71, died from sepsis secondary to bronchopneumonia in a psychiatric inpatient unit after five months admission for frontotempor…
54y · Male·Unascertained
A 54-year-old man with HIV, hepatitis C, cirrhosis, and significant immunocompromise presented with acute sepsis on 23 December 2016. Despite rapid ambulance response with sepsis protocol initiation and ICU-level aggres…
84y · Female·sepsis and cardiac failure in a woman with hypertensive ischaemic and valvular h…
…es including ischaemic heart disease, chronic renal failure, and severe biventricular dysfunction, died of sepsis and cardiac failure. She was admitted to hospital in June 2016 with decompensated cardiac failure and deve…
51y · Male·Complications of Recurrent Small Bowel Obstruction (palliated)
…ency surgery in June 2018 for a perforated bowel with foreign body (suspected chicken bone) complicated by sepsis and pneumonia. Despite recovery and discharge, he re-presented in July with recurrent symptoms requiring p…
60y · Male·sepsis/leg cellulitis with peripheral oedema and congestive cardiac failure in t…
…with treatment-resistant schizophrenia, emphysema, COPD, chronic hyponatraemia, and heart failure, died of sepsis from leg cellulitis with peripheral oedema and congestive cardiac failure. Admitted to hospital on 17 Nove…
53y · Male·Multi-organ failure due to sepsis
…d and detained at Rockhampton Watchhouse then transferred to Capricornia Correctional Centre. He developed sepsis from an acute infection (likely pneumonia) and died from multi-organ failure at Rockhampton Hospital. Clin…
62y · Female·Sepsis secondary to lower respiratory tract infection
…an with Down's syndrome, dementia, dysphagia, and epilepsy living in a disability care facility, died from sepsis secondary to lower respiratory tract infection. She presented with hypothermia, bradycardia, and decreased…
64y · Male·Septic shock secondary to urosepsis (Pseudomonas and Stenotropomonas maltophilia…
…n with diabetes, amputation, and COPD, presented to a private hospital emergency department with suspected sepsis (vomiting, diarrhoea, hypotension, acute kidney injury, elevated troponin, hyperkalaemia, metabolic acidos…
0y · Female·Right ventricular failure secondary to pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal…
… medical management, and 15 cardiac surgical procedures, she developed progressive complications including sepsis, seizures, and organ dysfunction. The Coroners Prevention Unit found her medical care was appropriately ma…
26y · Male·Multi-organ failure due to pneumococcal septic shock
…8 February when he became tachycardic and hypoxic, requiring medical review and antibiotics initiation per sepsis pathway. This review did not occur, causing approximately 3-hour delay in antibiotic administration. Trans…
74y · Male·small intestinal ischaemia caused by aortic atherosclerosis
…ng a fall. He developed hypotension, fever, tachycardia, and elevated inflammatory markers consistent with sepsis within hours of admission. Despite clear warning signs and abnormal blood tests indicating infection and o…
60y · Male·Sepsis due to pressure ulcers due to immobility on a background of advancing fro…
A 60-year-old man with frontotemporal dementia, diabetes, and ischaemic heart disease died from sepsis secondary to pressure ulcers while subject to a Mental Health Act inpatient treatment order. He developed …
94y · Female·Sepsis complicating management of vulval carcinoma in an elderly woman with seve…
…tiary hospital for oncology review. On arrival, she collapsed with septic shock and died 5 days later from sepsis. Post-mortem and expert review concluded the sepsis resulted from spontaneous rupture of a sigmoid diverti…
64y · Male·Pilot 1: Incineration due to light aircraft accident. Pilot 2: Multiorgan dysfun…
…tely 450 metres from the runway. Pilot 1 died instantly from incineration; Pilot 2 died 24 days later from sepsis secondary to severe burns. Extensive investigations by multiple agencies could not definitively determine …
88y · Female·sepsis of unknown origin
… her GP. She presented with abdominal symptoms and deteriorating vital signs, transferred to hospital with sepsis of unknown origin (possibly perforated bowel, diverticulitis, colitis, or ischaemic bowel). Clinical lesso…
44y · Male·Sepsis due to Streptococcus pyogenes (Group A Streptococcus) septicaemia complic…
…CRP and lactate may indicate evolving bacterial infection even when initial cultures are negative. Current sepsis protocols should guide empiric antibiotic therapy in shock states.
76y · Male·Chest sepsis in a man with ischaemic heart disease
A 76-year-old man with multiple myeloma and complex medical history died from chest sepsis and myocardial infarction following a medication dispensing error. After discharge from hospital for spina…
51y · Female·Complications of presumed gallbladder adenocarcinoma
…der adenocarcinoma. She was admitted to hospital in February 2024 with fever and suspected intra-abdominal sepsis; imaging revealed retroperitoneal lymphadenopathy and a large mass consistent with cancer recurrence. Foll…
48y · Male·Hypoxic brain injury following cardiac arrest in a patient with sigmoid colon vo…
Daniel Allan Sullivan, a 48-year-old man with chronic paranoid schizophrenia who had been an involuntary patient at Graylands Hospital for 23 years, presented to Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital on 13 June 2004 with abdomin…
32y · Female·Sepsis due to pyelonephritis of the right kidney due to acute and chronic cystit…
A 32-year-old Vietnamese-speaking woman died from sepsis due to pyelonephritis following premature discharge from hospital onto a midwifery support program. Multip…
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