31 results for “brain laceration”
1y · Female·Unascertained - cardiac arrest with brain swelling; neuropathology demonstrated …
…xamination and ancillary investigations, the cause of death remains unascertained. Neuropathology revealed brain trauma (laceration to corpus callosum) with hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy, but whether this resulted fr…
Male·Nathaniel Calma David: blunt trauma of the head including laceration of the brai…
… Bass Highway in Tasmania on 10 July 2021. Nathaniel Calma David (driver) died from blunt head trauma with brain stem laceration; Cheryl Ann Isip David (front seat passenger) died from multiple injuries including bilate…
28y · Male·Brain death resulting from exsanguination and hypovolaemic arrest due to severed…
Joshua David Smart, a 28-year-old scaffolder, died from brain death resulting from catastrophic exsanguination and hypovolaemic arrest. At approximately 4:45 am on 20 M…
50y · Male·Head injuries as a result of a motor vehicle collision (pedestrian)
Van Phuc Nguyen, a 50-year-old man, died from severe head injuries after being struck by an unknown vehicle while walking home from shopping in Inala, Brisbane. The vehicle did not stop at the scene. Despite extensive po…
10y · Male·catastrophic brain injury with multiple brain bleeds
A 10-month-old child died from catastrophic brain injury with multiple brain bleeds inflicted by their mother's boyfriend during an episode of care at home.…
28y · Male·stab wound to the neck with penetration and laceration of the right subclavian a…
Chien Diu Hoang, a 28-year-old Vietnamese student, died from a stab wound to the neck inflicted during a nightclub altercation in Melbourne in June 2011. The death was ruled a homicide. Mr Hoang had purchased a screwdriv…
67y · Male·Raised intracranial pressure due to head injuries from a fall
…on. He fell onto a concrete footpath and struck his head, suffering subdural and subarachnoid haemorrhage, brain contusions, and raised intracranial pressure. Despite maximal ICU support including intracranial pressure …
54y · Male·multiple injuries suffered in a motorcycle crash with a motor vehicle; specifica…
Terence Bernard McCauley, a 54-year-old experienced motorcycle rider, died from massive unsurvivable injuries sustained in a head-on motorcycle-motor vehicle collision on Arthur Highway, Tasmania. Christopher Ronald Euge…
41y · Male·multi-organ failure and staphylococcal septicaemia following pulmonary and aorti…
…d staphylococcal septicaemia, likely initiated by Q fever exposure at his abattoir workplace or a finger laceration. He presented with fever and chest pain but was initially misdiagnosed as having viral infection. Follow…
34y · Male·cerebral destruction and fractured skull sustained in motor vehicle accident wit…
…d Road near Yeppoon on 28 March 2010. The other occupant, vehicle owner Phillip Hudson, sustained a head laceration. The critical medical-legal issue concerned a police request for Hudson's blood sample to investigate po…
17y · Male·head injury in a fall from a height
…face, the ground crumbled beneath his grip, causing him to fall and strike his head. He sustained a severe brain injury, extensive intracranial haemorrhage, skull base fractures, and bilateral lung injuries. Despite rap…
7y · Male·head injuries from ejection onto rocky riverbank during boating accident
A 7-year-old boy died from catastrophic head injuries after being ejected from a ski biscuit during a recreational boating accident on the Prosser River in Tasmania. The vessel operator was towing the child at excessive …
54y · Female·Multiple injuries
Mrs Hiep Thi Nguyen, a 54-year-old refugee and long-term Australian resident, died from multiple injuries sustained when struck by an unidentified motor vehicle in a car park on 3 March 2007. The driver fled the scene an…
29y · Male·complete transection of the vertebral column from the base of the skull sustaine…
A 29-year-old male university student died from complete transection of the vertebral column sustained in a motor vehicle collision while walking on the Brooker Highway at Granton, Tasmania. He had consumed alcohol (BAC …
0y · Male·Non-accidental infliction of significant force to the head/face and gum region, …
…days before case closure from inflicted injury to his gum region, either causing asphyxiation or traumatic brain injury. Critical failures included: failure to act on expert medical advice; inadequate investigation of p…
43y · Male·Hypoxic brain injury secondary to haemopericardium and tamponade complicating ru…
Mr Trevor McDonald, 43-year-old male, died from hypoxic brain injury following cardiac tamponade complicating coronary angioplasty. During elective PCI at Frankston Hos…
30y · Male·Exsanguination due to an incision in the radial vein of his right wrist
Michael David John Nolan, aged 30, died in prison from exsanguination following a self-inflicted laceration to his radial vein. He had complex mental health needs including schizophrenia, acquired brain injury, d…
36y · Female·Global ischaemic injury following cardiorespiratory arrest in the immediate post…
Caroline Lovell, 36, died from postpartum haemorrhage following home birth of her second child. She had significant risk factors: prior PPH with first child and uterine fibroid, but these were not properly investigated b…
79y · Male·Head and chest injuries sustained in a single motorcycle crash
Brian Oakley Woods, aged 79, died from head and chest injuries sustained in a single motorcycle crash on the Tasman Highway. While an experienced rider with 65 years riding experience, Mr Woods overtook two motorcycles a…
51y · Female·blunt force head injuries, stab wounds of the right neck and gagging
Michelle Louise Meades, aged 51, died from blunt force head injuries, stab wounds to the neck, and gagging following a violent assault at a residential unit in Tasmania. Ms Meades had a history of methamphetamine and mar…
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