170 results for “ECG”
55y · Male·Cardiac tamponade due to ruptured aortic dissection (Type A) against a backgroun…
Rick Dickinson, a 55-year-old man, presented to St Andrew's War Memorial Hospital after experiencing severe central chest pain and lower back pain with numbness at the gym. The treating senior doctor failed to adequately…
18y · Female·Mixed drug toxicity
Tiesha Marie Derbyshire, an 18-year-old with complex mental health conditions including eating disorder, PTSD, and borderline personality disorder, died from mixed drug toxicity after intentionally overdosing on proprano…
49y · Male·Unascertained - cardiac arrhythmia with terminal aspiration in an overweight man…
…been given. This omission meant standard post-Acuphase monitoring protocols were not implemented. While the ECG showed mild QT prolongation (490msec), experts agreed this was within acceptable range. The patient died un…
63y · Male·Atherosclerotic Heart Disease
… and numbness). Although a registered nurse appropriately triaged him as ATS 2 (high priority) and obtained ECGs showing acute myocardial infarction within 15 minutes, she prioritised completing documentation before con…
56y · Male·Internal blood loss, complications arising from laparoscopic cholecystectomy
Barry Brown, a 56-year-old man, died from internal bleeding after laparoscopic cholecystectomy due to critical systemic failures in post-operative care and diagnosis. Following hypotension at 7:30pm, nursing staff failed…
6y · Male·cardiopulmonary arrest on a background of earlier cardiac arrests and resuscitat…
Austin Facer, a 6-year-old boy, suffered multiple cardiac arrests at school on 21 October 2019, initially resuscitated successfully, but died during transfer preparation to a higher-level hospital that evening. Autopsy r…
12y · Female·Hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy complicating an aortic root abscess (operated) …
…th consensus that endocarditis diagnosis was unreasonably difficult given non-specific presentation, normal ECG/imaging, and rarity of pneumococcal endocarditis.
[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), …
54y · Female·unascertained
Carole Livesey, a 54-year-old woman with severe anorexia nervosa and major depression, absconded from Rockingham Hospital psychiatric unit on 3 October 2017 during an escorted walk in hospital grounds. She had been an in…
64y · Female·Bilateral pulmonary embolism with left middle cerebral artery/posterior cerebral…
Marlene Kenny, 64, presented to Orbost Hospital on 8 January 2007 with chest tightness, breathing difficulties and low oxygen saturation (83-86%). A doctor diagnosed panic attack and discharged her without investigation.…
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