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26 results for femur fracture repair surgery

SAhospital2024-06-19

Coroner's Finding: Ferns, Patricia Dorothy

79y · Female·cardiogenic shock following repair of fractured right femur on a background of a…

Mrs Patricia Ferns, aged 79, died from cardiogenic shock following femur fracture repair, complicated by underlying aortic valve stenosis, atherosclerotic disease and hypertension…

cardiologyorthopaedic surgery
SAhospital2020-07-16

Coroner's Finding: HANAN Desmond George

90y · Male·pneumonia complicating fractured right neck of femur (operated) on a background …

…pertension, and cerebrovascular disease was admitted to hospital following a fall with right femoral neck fracture. He was placed on a Mental Health Act Inpatient Treatment Order due to delirium and agitation. He underwe…

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SAaged care2022-04-14

Coroner's Finding: Lauder, Ian Ross

80y · Male·general inanition and pneumonia on a background of advanced vascular dementia, c…

…on a background of advanced vascular dementia, cerebrovascular disease, and a recently operated right hip fracture. He had suffered a fall on 3 October 2019, sustaining a neck of femur fracture requiring surgery. During …

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TASaged care2025-12-12

Coroner's Finding: Mitchelmore, Susan

70y · Female·pneumonia and post-surgical course following repair of neck of femur fracture, i…

…was a resident in an aged care facility under a Mental Health Act Treatment Order. She sustained a neck of femur fracture from a fall despite appropriate falls prevention strategies in place. Following surgical fixation…

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SAhospital2022-04-14

Coroner's Finding: Underwood, Richard

97y · Male·respiratory failure attributed to aspiration pneumonia on a background of advanc…

…ed from respiratory failure due to aspiration pneumonia on a background of advanced dementia, a surgically repaired neck of femur fracture, and gastrointestinal haemorrhage. He was admitted to hospital in late September …

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SAhospital2022-12-16

Coroner's Finding: Roocroft, Bryan

84y · Male·acute aspiration complicating periprosthetic fractured right femur (operated) on…

Bryan Roocroft, 84 years old with severe dementia, suffered a periprosthetic right femur fracture after two falls at aged care on 24 December 2020 while on oxazepam. He underwent surgical repair

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TASaged care2020-02-14

Coroner's Finding: Whitney, Margaret Ann

81y · Female·hypovolemic shock due to haemorrhage during orthopaedic repair of a femur fractu…

…-year-old woman with vascular dementia, died from hypovolemic shock due to haemorrhage during orthopaedic surgery for a femoral fracture sustained in a fall at her nursing home. She had been subject to guardianship orde…

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TAShome2022-07-22

Coroner's Finding: Brown, Elizabeth Mary

80y · Female·Multiple injuries sustained in motor vehicle crash

…other vehicle before striking a power pole. She was not wearing a seatbelt. She sustained head injury and fractured femur, underwent surgery, but her condition deteriorated and she died 16 days later on palliative care. …

VICaged care2025-03-14

Finding into death of Maria Grazia Nardiello

90y · Female·Surgical repair of fractured neck of femur sustained in a fall complicated by CO…

Maria Grazia Nardiello, aged 90, died following surgical repair of a fractured neck of femur sustained in a fall at an aged care facility, complicated by COVID-19 infecti…

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SAaged care2024-06-19

Coroner's Finding: Saberton, Linda Eileen

73y · Female·fractured neck of femur (operated) on a background of Alzheimer's dementia

Linda Eileen Saberton, aged 73, died from complications of a fractured neck of femur sustained in a fall at her aged care facility, on a background of advanced Alzheimer's dem…

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WAhospital2007-05

Inquest into the Death of frith

80y · Female·Pulmonary Thromboembolism in a woman with Left Femur Fracture

Sheila Margaret Frith, 80, sustained a left femur fracture after falling at the top of an escalator at an immigration office on 4 July 2005. She was admitte…

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WAaged care2014-07-23

Inquest into the Death of Daniel

83y · Female·Complications following fracture and surgical repair of the left hip in an elder…

Nola Inez Daniel, 83, died from complications following a hip fracture and subsequent surgery at Bunbury Regional Hospital on 7 January 2010. She sustained a fractured left nec…

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TAShospital2017-09-25

Coroner's Finding: Willox, Brian William

81y · Male·pneumonia complicating fracture of the neck of the right femur sustained in a fa…

…e chronic conditions including dementia, ischaemic heart disease, emphysema, and hypertension sustained a fractured right femoral neck from a fall at an aged care facility. He underwent surgical repair but developed pneu…

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SAaged care2024-05-22

Coroner's Finding: Kaczaniw, Iwan

93y · Male·general inanition on a background of cognitive impairment, congestive cardiac fa…

…old man with dementia, heart failure, and chronic renal disease died of general inanition following a hip fracture sustained in a fall at an aged care facility. He was under a guardianship order with special powers. Post…

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VICaged care2024-04-30

Finding into death of Jean Meyer

96y · Female·complications following a fractured distal right femur

A 96-year-old woman died from complications of a hip fracture sustained when pushed by a fellow resident with severe dementia at an aged care facility. The resident pr…

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TAShospital2019-02-22

Coroner's Finding: Mansfield, Doreen

78y · Female·Complications arising from a left femur fracture following an unwitnessed fall i…

…h Act treatment order. She sustained an unwitnessed fall in her room on 1 August 2015, fracturing her left femur, and died from complications on 2 August 2015. A falls risk assessment completed on admission classified h…

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TAShospital2023-08-02

Coroner's Finding: Slatter, Ronald Reginald

93y · Male·Alzheimer's dementia (as recorded on MCCD); however, the death resulted from a f…

…inald Slatter, aged 93, died at Mersey Community Hospital on 22 July 2022, three weeks after sustaining a fractured neck of right femur from a fall on 1 July 2022. While the coroner found no issues with his clinical care…

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VIChospital2014-06-20

Finding into death of Rosalie Anne King

29y · Female·Bronchopneumonia in a woman with brain injury

A 29-year-old Aboriginal woman suffered a motor vehicle collision resulting in severe multi-system injuries requiring multiple surgical interventions. Eleven days after transfer to the trauma ward, she experienced sudden…

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VICaged care2020-07-22

Finding into death of Dorothy Boyle

92y · Female·Complications of a fractured left femur (operated), sustained in a fall

Dorothy Lorraine Boyle, aged 92, died from complications of a left femoral fracture sustained in a fall at an aged care facility. She fell while attempting to push out a wandering dementia-…

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TASaged care2025-05-26

Coroner's Finding: de-identified GJ

94y · Male·aspiration pneumonia due to stroke following surgery to repair fracture of neck …

A 94-year-old man with dementia died from aspiration pneumonia following a stroke after hip surgery. The stroke and hip fracture resulted from being pushed by another resident with Alzheimer's dementia at …

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