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43 results for acquired intellectual disability

VIChospital2019-07-17

Finding into death of Glenn Thomas King

55y · Male·Community acquired pneumonia in a man with Down Syndrome

Glenn Thomas King, a 55-year-old man with Down syndrome, intellectual disability, asthma, bronchiectasis and recurrent chest infections, died from community-acquired pneumon…

general practicerespiratory medicinecefalexin
VIChospital2025-03-07

Finding into death of Heather Joan Moody

77y · Female·Pneumonia with contributing factors of acquired brain injury, Parkinson's diseas…

A 77-year-old woman with acquired brain injury, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy and intellectual disability died of pneumonia while an SDA re…

neurologyrespiratory medicineprednisolone
VIChome2026-06-03

Finding into death of Tracy Louise Walford

53y · Female·Respiratory failure due to community acquired pneumonia and acute pulmonary oede…

Tracy Louise Walford, age 53, with Down syndrome, intellectual disability, and early-onset Alzheimer's disease, lived in Specialist Disability Accommodation. Over six…

emergency medicinegeneral medicine
VIC2025-05-14

Finding into death of Adrian Colin Phillips

58y · Male·Complications of community-acquired pneumonia, in a man with chronic lung diseas…

Adrian Phillips, a 58-year-old man with intellectual disability and chronic lung disease (emphysema, bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, asthma), died from comm…

general practicerespiratory medicinebromhexine
VIChospital2024-01-18

Finding into death of Melissa Jan Hadland

55y · Female·Pneumonia

Melissa Jan Hadland, a 55-year-old woman with Down syndrome, congenital heart disease, and intellectual disability, died from community-acquired pneumonia at Box Hill Hospital. She presented with respiratory…

emergency medicinegeneral medicine
VIChospital2013-05-09

Finding into death of Wayne Paul Eadie

47y · Male·pneumonia

Wayne Eadie, a 47-year-old man with intellectual disability living in residential care, died from community-acquired pneumonia complicated by acute-on-c…

general practicerespiratory medicinechlorpromazine
VIChospital2021-11-30

Finding into death of Maxine Joyce Manwaring

48y · Female·Pleural Effusion with Lung Infection

MA was a 48-year-old woman with acquired brain injury, profound intellectual disability, and quadriplegia living in supported accommodation. She d…

general practicegeneral medicine
VIChospital2026-02-23

Finding into death of William Thomas Kerby

80y · Male·Pneumonia in a man with multiple medical comorbidities

William Thomas Kerby, an 80-year-old man with intellectual disability, epilepsy, and bipolar disorder living in specialist disability accommodation, died from com…

emergency medicineinfectious diseases
VIChome2020-02-25

Finding into death of Laurie Henry Cartledge

44y · Male·Heroin toxicity in the setting of ischaemic heart disease

Laurie Cartledge, a 44-year-old man with intellectual disability and acquired brain injury, died from heroin toxicity complicated by severe coronary artery a…

forensic medicineaddiction medicinesystemcommunicationheroin
VICaged care2026-04-28

Finding into death of Graham Peter Moore

61y · Male·Pneumonia complicating Trisomy 21

…y-onset dementia living in residential care, died of pneumonia on 8 December 2025. He developed community-acquired pneumonia in late November, was hospitalised at Austin Hospital on 24 November and treated with intraveno…

respiratory medicineinfectious diseases
VIChome2022-12-05

Finding into death of Paul Kenneth Wright

45y · Male·stab injury to the chest

…t inflicted in self-defence by Beau Muscat on 16 September 2021. Paul had an extensive custodial history, acquired brain injury, and intellectual disability. On release from prison, he was prescribed suboxone and diazepa…

general practiceforensic medicinesystemcommunicationmethamphetamine
VIChospital2017-06-27

Finding into death of Deborah Jane Parker

61y · Female·aspiration pneumonia

A 61-year-old woman with intellectual disability, wheelchair-bound, and living in supported accommodation died from aspiration pneumonia foll…

emergency medicinegeneral practicediagnosticantibiotics
VICaged care2016-06-07

Finding into death of Clive John Cook

68y · Male·Complications of aspiration pneumonia in a man with intellectual disability (con…

A 68-year-old man with severe intellectual disability and congenital brain injury died from complications of aspiration pneumonia. He had a long h…

palliative caregeneral medicine
SAhospital2014-05-19

Coroner's Finding: AYRES David Stanley

65y · Male·sepsis due to aspiration pneumonia

…tion was likely administered but poorly documented. He was admitted to hospital on 14 June with community-acquired pneumonia, initially improved in ICU, but developed hospital-acquired pneumonia on the ward. He deteriora…

general practiceintensive caresystemcefalexin
VIChospital2022-11-14

Finding into death of Gregory Bernard Duffy

55y · Male·Urosepsis and pneumonia, with contributing factor of Down syndrome

Gregory Duffy, a 55-year-old man with Down syndrome and intellectual disability living in supported accommodation, died from urosepsis and pneumonia following recurrent uri…

infectious diseasesintensive careinsulin
VIC2018-01-17

Finding into death of John Gale

64y · Male·Aspiration pneumonia in a man with dysphagia and acquired brain injury

John Gale, a 64-year-old man with acquired brain injury and severe intellectual disability living in state care, died from aspiration pneumonia foll…

general practicegastroenterologysystemdelay
VIC2016-05-23

Finding into death of Katrina Mary West

56y · Female·Hypoxic ischaemic brain injury due to upper airway obstruction by food bolus

A 56-year-old woman with intellectual disability and acquired brain injury died from hypoxic ischaemic brain injury following upper airway ob…

intensive careneurologycommunicationsystemlevetiracepam
TAShome2021-04-12

Coroner's Finding: Rubenach, Timothy Luke

32y · Male·Aspiration pneumonia and reflux oesophagitis

…e Rubenach, aged 32, died of aspiration pneumonia following severe reflux oesophagitis. He had profound intellectual disability and drug-resistant epilepsy from meningococcal infection at 5 months. His parents discontinu…

general practicegastroenterologymorphine
VIC2013-08-20

Finding into death of PETER MALLIA

47y · Male·Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia; Aspiration; Critical Care Neuropathy; Cereb…

Peter Mallia, a 47-year-old man with cerebral palsy and intellectual disability, died of severe community-acquired pneumonia, aspiration, and critical care neuropathy on 31…

general practicespeech pathologydiazepam
VIChospital2016-06-07

Finding into death of Linda Tucker

62y · Female·Stomach perforation complicating recurrent pseudo-obstruction of the bowel

Linda Tucker, a 62-year-old woman with intellectual disability and history of recurrent pseudo-obstruction, presented with acute abdominal distension and w…

emergency medicinesurgeryclonazepam

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