9 results for “bowel decompression”
37y · Male·hypoxic brain injury secondary to cardiac arrest as a result of bowel volvulus
… living in supported residential care died from hypoxic brain injury secondary to cardiac arrest caused by bowel volvulus. He had presented to hospital two weeks earlier with partial bowel obstruction and was discharged…
81y · Male·Consequences of bowel obstruction
Ronald Turner, an 81-year-old man in lawful custody, died from consequences of bowel obstruction with aspiration pneumonia. He had a history of recurrent sigmoid volvulus despite previous sur…
67y · Male·Faeculent peritonitis due to perforation of a sigmoid volvulus
… and decreased appetite. A sigmoid volvulus was identified and a rectal tube successfully inserted for decompression. Conservative management was continued, but he deteriorated and died from faeculent peritonitis second…
59y · Female·Complications of a pseudo-obstruction on a background of previous anterior resec…
…moid volvulus resection. She had intellectual disability, dementia, schizophrenia, depression, and chronic bowel dysmotility. Admitted July 2024 with abdominal distension, she underwent flexible sigmoidoscopy, colonosco…
39y · Male·Complications of large bowel pseudo-obstruction
… schizo-affective illness, hepatic cirrhosis, and substance abuse history died from complications of large bowel pseudo-obstruction with aspiration pneumonia. He had been admitted involuntarily for acute psychosis and u…
65y · Male·Middle cerebral artery stroke in a man with multiple medical co-morbidities
…nbach, a 65-year-old man with tuberous sclerosis, severe intellectual disability, epilepsy, and history of bowel complications, died from a middle cerebral artery stroke. He had been admitted to hospital in late October…
70y · Female·Severe dehydration and renal complications secondary to intestinal obstruction d…
…enting dark bile vomiting and the patient's known pending hernia repairs, leading to a missed diagnosis of bowel obstruction. A subsequent general practitioner, though ordering appropriate supportive care, similarly did…
57y · Male·sepsis and multiple organ failure secondary to aspiration pneumonia
Timothy Fenton, a 57-year-old intellectually disabled man on antiepileptic medications, developed a small bowel ileus after presenting with vomiting and diarrhoea. Following emergency laparotomy, his nasogastric tube w…
21y · Male·multi-organ failure due to septicaemia of mixed respiratory (bronchopneumonia) a…
Shannon Tang, a 21-year-old from Singapore with severe obesity (BMI 52) and multiple comorbidities including sleep apnoea, underwent elective laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery performed by Dr F.. He died on day 7 post-…
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