Coronial

4 results for chemoradiotherapy

VIChospital2021-10-26

Finding into death of John Francis Flynn

69y · Male·Hypoxic ischaemic brain injury secondary to right facial artery pseudoaneurysm r…

…h tonsillar squamous cell carcinoma presenting with throat pain and trismus 12 days after completing chemoradiotherapy. On presentation to emergency department with bleeding, airway risk was under-recognised despite cli…

emergency medicineENT surgerydiagnosticcommunicationparacetamol/codeine
VIChospital2014-05-01

Finding into death of Bassillios Byron Pantazis

68y · Male·Metastatic gastro-oesophageal adenocarcinoma

…onic obstructive airways disease. Diagnosed with oesophageal carcinoma in January 2012, he underwent chemoradiotherapy but was deemed unsuitable for surgery due to poor ventricular function. CT imaging in April 2013 sho…

oncologypalliative care
WAhospital2021-09-10

Inquest into the Death of James David HECTOR

47y · Male·bronchopneumonia and upper airway obstruction in a man with end-stage oral cance…

…-year history of squamous cell carcinoma of the mouth with multiple recurrences despite surgical and chemoradiotherapy treatment. At the time of death, he was a remand prisoner. The coroner found he received a high stan…

palliative careoncologyoxycodone
VIChome2021-12-21

Finding into death of Geoffrey Alan Locks

50y · Male·Tracheostomy site haemorrhage in a man with laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (t…

A 50-year-old man died from tracheostomy site haemorrhage 36 days after laryngectomy for recurrent laryngeal cancer. He lived alone post-discharge with a MePACS personal alarm system and home nursing visits. When bleedin…

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