13 results for “faecal impaction”
53y · Female·Aspiration pneumonia complicating large bowel obstruction due to faecal impactio…
…osis, and chronic constipation, died from aspiration pneumonia complicating large bowel obstruction due to faecal impaction. She was admitted to Alfred Hospital on 3 November 2022 with abdominal distension and coarse lun…
89y · Male·combination of biochemical consequences of colonic pseudo-obstruction and faecal…
An 89-year-old man with multiple comorbidities including previous colon cancer died from faecal impaction and stercoral colitis. He resided in a residential aged care facility (RACF) where staff failed …
39y · Male·Complications of large bowel pseudo-obstruction
…ration pneumonia. He had been admitted involuntarily for acute psychosis and underwent manual rectal dis-impaction and enemas on 2 February 2017. He collapsed with faecal vomiting, aspiration, and bowel obstruction, req…
68y · Male·Stercoral perforation in a man with cerebral palsy
…, a 68-year-old man with cerebral palsy, died from stercoral perforation following severe constipation and faecal impaction. He had multiple complex disabilities including quadriplegia, dysphagia, and epilepsy, managed b…
10y · Female·Ischaemic large bowel; large bowel obstruction secondary to chronic constipation
Child W, aged 10, died from ischaemic large bowel secondary to chronic constipation and faecal impaction. She had lifelong constipation and encopresis (soiling) from infancy, presenting to her GP twice…
51y · Female·Complication of Parkinson's disease
…gul on 3 August 2025 while under palliative care. She had been admitted to hospital in May 2025 for severe faecal impaction with pseudo-obstruction and subsequently refused medications. By July, she was on home palliativ…
11y · Female·Complications of E. coli sepsis in association with intestinal obstruction due t…
…in and vomiting. She died 12 hours later from E. coli sepsis associated with intestinal obstruction due to faecal impaction of megacolon. Critical delays in management included: a three-hour delay administering the phosp…
22y · Female·bowel obstruction due to faecal impaction
…2-year-old with rare congenital abnormalities affecting bowel function, died from bowel obstruction due to faecal impaction complicated by abdominal compartment syndrome. She presented to Carnarvon Hospital on 26 October…
45y · Female·aspiration of vomitus with bowel obstruction due to faecal impaction
…y 2007 at Albany Regional Hospital from aspiration of vomitus secondary to bowel obstruction due to severe faecal impaction. She had been admitted as an involuntary patient on 2 May 2007. The coroner found the death was …
66y · Male·Cardiac hypertrophy and coronary artery disease secondary to obesity (WHO Class …
Glenn Cook, a 66-year-old man with moderate intellectual disability living in Specialist Disability Accommodation, died from cardiac hypertrophy and coronary artery disease secondary to obesity and hypercholesterolaemia.…
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 urinary retention. He was treated with intravenou…
11y · Male·complications of bowel obstruction in the setting of chronic constipation
…acement in an unmonitored room. He was transferred to RCH where emergency surgery revealed massive fecal impaction, megacolon, and hypoganglionosis. Despite surgery and intensive care, he died from multi-organ failure a…
56y · Male·Complications of clostridium difficile and malnutrition in the setting of cerebr…
Mr C was a 56-year-old man with cerebral palsy and acquired brain injury who died from complications of Clostridioides difficile infection and malnutrition. He was admitted to hospital on 21 January 2022 with diarrhoea, …
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