112 results for “chronic back pain”
31y · Male·Combined effects of multiple drugs in an obese male with findings suggestive of …
…bronchopneumonia, less than 24 hours after discharge from psychiatric hospital. He had suffered a workplace back injury in 2006 resulting in chronic pain and depression, becoming dependent on multiple CNS-depressant medi…
61y · Male·hanging
… as he consistently declined antidepressant medication. In early January 2020, he overdosed on prescription painkillers following relationship breakdown and worsening back pain, requiring hospital admission. He was disch…
44y · Female·mixed drug toxicity with aspiration of gastric contents
A 44-year-old woman with chronic back pain and depression died from mixed drug toxicity with aspiration of gastric contents. She had been …
80y · Male·gunshot wound to the head
An 80-year-old man with chronic back pain died by self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head on 1 March 2011. Five days before his death, h…
74y · Male·Drowning
…d mental health conditions dating to 1973. At the time of death, he was experiencing financial stress and chronic back pain. Evidence indicates he deliberately planned his death, including researching chain weight requi…
51y · Male·Pericardial tamponade complicating Type I aortic dissection in the setting of lo…
…ordon, 51, presented to Royal Hobart Hospital Emergency Department on 20 March 2015 with sudden onset chest pain. Initial assessment suspected acute coronary syndrome with elevated troponin. Over 36 hours he experienced …
70y · Male·Unknown cause; presumed drowning but sudden medical event cannot be excluded
George William Le Vaux, a 70-year-old man with multiple chronic health conditions including severe headaches, back pain, fibromyalgia, and chronic fatigue syndrome, disa…
Male·mixed prescription drug toxicity (tramadol and diazepam)
…ayne Dare died from mixed prescription drug toxicity involving tramadol and diazepam. He had a history of chronic lower back pain and depression managed with these medications prescribed by his GP over several years. Wh…
50y · Female·Mixed prescription drug toxicity (oxycodone, amitriptyline, diazepam, diphenhydr…
A 50-year-old woman with chronic pain from a work-related back injury died from mixed prescription drug toxicity (oxycodone, amitriptyline…
57y · Female·starvation due to insufficient food intake
…an, died from starvation after progressively restricting her food intake over months while immobilised by chronic back pain. She had a gastrointestinal stromal tumour and advanced lung disease from smoking. Her partner,…
58y · Male·Heroin toxicity
58-year-old man with chronic back pain, paranoid schizophrenia, and decades-long prescription opioid and benzodiazepine abuse died fro…
51y · Female·Mixed drug toxicity (amitriptyline, chlorpheniramine, diazepam, codeine) complic…
…itriptyline, chlorpheniramine, diazepam, codeine) complicated by biventricular heart hypertrophy. She had chronic back pain treated with opioids and used excessive over-the-counter antihistamines for perceived allergies…
50y · Male·methadone and alprazolam intoxication
Michael John Taylor, aged 50, died from methadone and alprazolam intoxication on 13 May 2016. He had chronic back pain and had been prescribed methadone and oxazepam since 2005. Evidence suggests he was crushing an…
38y · Male·Hanging
…tory of psychiatric illness, including depression, paranoid schizophrenia, previous suicide attempts, and chronic back pain. He was appropriately identified as elevated baseline risk (EBR) at induction and received psyc…
60y · Female·Multiple injuries sustained in a motor vehicle incident (driver)
…ing drowsiness. She had significant comorbidities including hypertension, cardiomegaly, sleep apnoea, and chronic back pain. While the coroner could not definitively establish whether medications or a medical episode ca…
33y · Male·Respiratory failure due to mixed drug toxicity (amitriptyline, oxycodone, morphi…
A 33-year-old man with chronic back pain, depression, morbid obesity and sleep apnoea died in psychiatric custody from respiratory failu…
40y · Male·unascertained
Justin Foster, a 40-year-old man with bipolar affective disorder, chronic back pain, and substance abuse history, died suddenly in a psychiatric inpatient unit (Upton House) on 3 …
60y · Male·Hypertensive heart disease with chronic fatty liver as other significant conditi…
…ease and cardiomegaly, was admitted to Caloundra Hospital on 10 January 2007 for management of severe acute back pain caused by a suspected L3/4 disc herniation while awaiting neurosurgical transfer to Royal Brisbane Hos…
67y · Male·hypothermia
Richard Thorn, a 67-year-old man with a history of alcoholism and back problems affecting mobility, was found deceased on his bedroom floor. Autopsy confirmed death from hypother…
36y · Male·Unascertained
…ared on 25 January 2023 and is presumed deceased. He had treatment-resistant depression, was in significant pain from a recent back injury, and was prescribed opioids (Lyrica, Endone, Oxycodone). On the morning of disapp…
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