Coroner's Finding: HB
8y · Male·acute exacerbation of chronic asthma
An 8-year-old boy with undertreated chronic asthma presented to North West Regional Hospital with acute exacerbation. Initial assessment underestimated sever…
7 results for “acute asthma attack”
8y · Male·acute exacerbation of chronic asthma
An 8-year-old boy with undertreated chronic asthma presented to North West Regional Hospital with acute exacerbation. Initial assessment underestimated sever…
16y · Female·consequences of acute asthma with hypoxic encephalopathy
Jessica-Lee Dennis, aged 16, died from acute asthma with hypoxic encephalopathy on 7 May 2004. She presented with progressive nocturnal cough and wheez…
46y · Female·hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy complicating cardiorespiratory arrest in the se…
…c ischaemic encephalopathy complicating cardiorespiratory arrest during the November 21, 2016 Thunderstorm Asthma event in Melbourne. She had known asthma with poor medication compliance, was highly sensitized to rye gra…
56y · Female·asthma
…autism who was living in Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) supported accommodation, died from acute asthma while returning from a walking excursion. She had been prescribed both preventer (Seretide) and rel…
36y · Male·bronchial asthma
Nathan Reynolds, a 36-year-old Aboriginal man with severe asthma, died from bronchial asthma in prison on 1 September 2018. His death exposed critical failings in both imm…
69y · Female·Asthma
June Sylvia Long, aged 69, suffered an asthma attack at home on 28 June 1994 and was transported to Alfred Hospital. She deteriorated overnight in the h…
44y · Female·salt water drowning due to ascent barotrauma (cerebral arterial gas embolism)
…ube dysfunction. Her diving medical examination was inadequate; she falsely denied having pneumothorax and asthma, which created predisposition to lung rupture during ascent. The examining physician was not trained in hy…
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