24 results for “chronic spinal pain”
60y · Male·Unknown; likely suicide but natural causes or accident cannot be excluded
Wayne Michael Parker, a 60-year-old man with chronic degenerative spinal disease and chronic pain managed with opioid medications, disappeared on 3 June 2023 …
22y · Male·combined mixed drug intoxication
A 22-year-old medical student with chronic spinal cord pain and depression died from combined drug intoxication involving U-47700 (a potent uncontro…
48y · Male·Subarachnoid haemorrhage
…ge from a ruptured cerebral aneurysm while in the exercise yard at Townsville Correctional Centre. He had chronic spinal stenosis managed with pregabalin, tramadol, and amitriptyline, and was under neurosurgical follow-…
72y · Female·Hanging
Chang Ying Xu, a 72-year-old Chinese-speaking woman with severe spinal cord compression, chronic pain, and depression, died by hanging during respite care at an aged care facili…
60y · Female·undetermined
Margaret Elizabeth Hills, a 60-year-old woman with chronic pain and depression from a work-related spinal injury, disappeared on 2 February 2010 from her home in Ka…
27y · Male·combined drug toxicity (U-47700 and etizolam)
…nd etizolam (a benzodiazepine 10 times more potent than diazepam), obtained via internet purchase. He had chronic spinal pain following a 2012 motor vehicle accident and was managed by pain specialists and his GP with m…
84y · Male·Complications of gout and old spinal injury, cause unknown
An 84-year-old male prisoner with multiple comorbidities (gout, spinal cord injury, renal impairment, cardiac failure) presented with chest infection, abdominal pain, and urinar…
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…
28y · Male·Mixed drug toxicity (synergistic effects of diazepam, oxycodone, and fentanyl ca…
Matthew McLachlan, a 28-year-old paraplegic with chronic pain from spinal cord injury, died from mixed drug toxicity while hospitalized for urinary tract infectio…
67y · Male·Complications of pressure ulcers in the setting of a thoracic vertebral fracture…
Michael Young, 67, died from pressure ulcer complications following a spinal injury sustained during a CT scan on 3 January 2023. He had fallen from his wheelchair at home and present…
17y · Male·Hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy due to hanging
… 2020, seven days after discharge from psychiatric inpatient care. He had complex medical needs including chronic back pain, spinal fusion, post-viral fatigue, depression, anxiety, and gender dysphoria. Critical clinica…
52y · Male·Gunshot wound to the head
Roderick Dillon, a 52-year-old man, died from a gunshot wound to the head. While depression, chronic pain, and some circumstantial evidence suggested possible suicide, the coroner was unable to establish th…
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…
69y · Male·neck compression due to hanging
…lth services—GL consistently denied suicidal ideation while expressing emotional distress about his wife, chronic pain, and physical limitations. He was reviewed daily by nursing staff and received appropriate specialis…
12y · Female·Raised intracranial pressure due to acute-on-chronic hydrocephalus in the contex…
Samantha Rose Spence, 12 years old, died two days after spinal fusion surgery for severe scoliosis. She had a pre-existing, asymptomatic Chiari type 1 malformation detec…
33y · Female·Hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy complicating mixed drug toxicity
Jessica Higgins, a 33-year-old woman with chronic pain and opioid dependence, died from hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy following mixed drug toxicity. She…
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…
55y · Male·decompensated liver failure in a man with metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma, w…
…th terminal palliative care. He had pre-existing cirrhosis diagnosed in 2012, likely from hepatitis C and chronic alcohol dependence. In October 2023, abdominal pain investigations revealed advanced hepatocellular carci…
Unknown·acute fentanyl toxicity; acute oxycodone toxicity; multiple drug toxicity; opioi…
Four adults died from opioid overdoses (fentanyl and oxycodone) in Queensland between 2012–2014. All obtained prescriptions from multiple doctors ('doctor shopping') without effective detection. Systemic failures include…
52y · Female·Mixed drug toxicity
…8 in circumstances consistent with suicide. She had a long history of depression, childhood abuse trauma, chronic pain conditions, and recent relationship breakdown. She presented to healthcare services multiple times e…
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