168 results for “terminal illness”
4y · Male·respiratory failure secondary to pneumonia on a background of Niemann Pick Type …
Lebron Martin was a 4-year-old Aboriginal child with Niemann-Pick Type C disease, a progressive neurodegenerative disorder. He died from respiratory failure secondary to pneumonia in December 2017. Four months prior to h…
84y · Male·respiratory failure due to hospital-acquired pneumonia
Ronald Geoffrey Weeks, aged 84, died of respiratory failure due to hospital-acquired pneumonia following a hip fracture sustained in a fall at James Nash House psychiatric facility. He was serving an 8-year sentence for …
58y · Male·Metastatic non-small cell lung carcinoma
…nical lessons include: (1) the need for dedicated palliative care pathways in correctional facilities for terminally ill prisoners; (2) timely identification and formal appointment of substitute decision-makers for patie…
32y · Male·neck compression in the circumstances of hanging
Jesse Bird, a 32-year-old Torres Strait Islander veteran, died by suicide in June 2017 after struggling to navigate the Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA) compensation system. He served in Afghanistan in 2009, develop…
28y · Female·aspiration of gastric contents complicating laxative abuse
…r-old woman died from aspiration of gastric contents complicating severe laxative abuse. She fabricated a terminal cancer diagnosis to conceal anorexia nervosa and factitious disorder. During a RAH admission, a CT scan r…
81y · Male·Carcinoid tumour (metastasis) / metastatic cancer
Donald Richard Gunthorpe, an 81-year-old man with metastatic rectal carcinoma, was appropriately transitioned to end-of-life (palliative) care at a residential aged care facility after hospitalisation for abdominal pain.…
56y · Male·acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (bronchial asthma) i…
Ashley Adrian Lane, a 56-year-old Aboriginal man from the Ngaanyatjarra Lands, died in custody at Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital from acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (asthma). He was a remand pr…
36y · Male·Toxic overdose of Clozapine (anti-psychotic drug), self-administered, with termi…
Brian Duff, a 36-year-old with severe chronic schizophrenia, died from Clozapine toxicity (pulmonary oedema and cardiac arrest) on 14-15 February 1997. He was subject to a Community Treatment Order and under case managem…
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