5y · Male·extensive skull fracturing and traumatic brain injury from pedestrian strike by …
… 5-year-old boy with significant disabilities from pneumococcal meningitis and stroke (right hemiparesis, hearing loss, epilepsy) was temporarily placed in care by the Department of Children and Families for medication …
44y · Male·Complications of a Left Temporal Lobe Abscess
… man who died from a brain abscess originating from an untreated chronic ear infection. He had documented hearing impairment and a history of chronic ear disease requiring ENT specialist care, yet this was not identifie…
65y · Male·Complications of end stage renal failure in a man with multiple co-morbidities
Mr Kermond, a 65-year-old man with intellectual disability, visual and hearing impairment living in a group home, was admitted to Lyndoch Living for respite care on 25 July 2019. He ha…
87y · Male·Blunt trauma of the head and chest
…s tractor on 16 March 2020. He had multiple serious health conditions including leukaemia, severe vision impairment from macular degeneration, near-total deafness, and previous cognitive impairment. His ophthalmologist h…
3y · Male·Respiratory failure due to spastic quadriplegia and cerebral palsy
…e Peoples was a 3-year-old boy with profound disabilities including spastic quadriplegia, cerebral palsy, hearing and sight impairment. He required percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy for feeding and received ongoing su…
63y · Male·Aspiration pneumonitis with contributing conditions of ischaemic gut, dysphagia …
Robert Easter, 63, a man with cerebral palsy, intellectual disability, blindness and hearing impairment, died of aspiration pneumonitis following admission to hospital with a choking episode, vomiti…
95y · Female·Acute intracranial haemorrhage
DRF, a 95-year-old woman with dementia, hearing impairment, mobility limitations, and mild cognitive impairment, died from acute intracranial haemorrhage…
82y · Male·bronchopneumonia
Gerald Quinane, an 82-year-old man with intellectual disability living in state-managed residential care, died from bronchopneumonia. He presented with respiratory symptoms and was taken to hospital on 1 March 2014, trea…
82y · Male·Pneumonia on a background of ischaemic and hypertensive heart disease
An 82-year-old man with advanced dementia, hearing impairment, and multiple comorbidities (ischaemic heart disease, hypertension, COPD) died of pneumonia at…
51y · Male·Lobar pneumonia
Giuseppe Luci, a 51-year-old man with severe Fragile X syndrome, epilepsy and hearing impairment living in a DHHS group home, died from lobar pneumonia. On 29 October, he presented with vomit…
90y · Female·Type II respiratory failure in the setting of severe respiratory injury followin…
Pearl Recht, a 90-year-old woman living alone with hearing loss and mobility limitations, died from Type II respiratory failure following severe respiratory injury …
29y · Male·head injury
…nance van while retrieving a fallen surfboard from the Princes Highway emergency lane. The van driver had hearing difficulties and could not hear the reversing sensor alert. Despite being resuscitated at the scene and t…
89y · Female·Multiple organ failure with cachexia on a background of chronic lower limb ulcer…
… concerns. The case highlights challenges in managing non-compliant elderly patients with complex wounds, hearing impairment, and possible cognitive decline. Early establishment of capacity assessment and advance care p…
81y · Male·Unable to determine - likely dehydration and exposure in remote bushland terrain…
…oss, difficulty walking due to hip surgery complications, a heart condition managed with a pacemaker, and hearing loss. His vehicle was found abandoned with mechanical faults. Extensive search efforts failed to locate h…
39y · Male·acute myocardial ischaemia, coronary artery thrombosis and coronary artery ather…
Jeremy Tunkin, an Aboriginal man with severe hearing loss, died of acute myocardial infarction while in prison custody. On 6 August 2017, he presented to the …
5y · Female·Pneumonia as a complication of septo-optic cerebral dysplasia
…ain malformation causing profound developmental delay, spastic quadriparesis, poorly controlled epilepsy, hearing and visual impairment, and diabetes insipidus. She was in state care under joint guardianship from age 10…
59y · Female·Extensive crush injury sustained when struck by a heavy vehicle (road train)
…way at night near Stuarts Well. She was highly intoxicated (BAC 0.15%) and had documented poor vision and hearing. The roadhouse from which she purchased alcohol had breached its liquor licence conditions by serving alc…
64y · Male·Complications of a cerebral tumour in the setting of multiple medical comorbidit…
Brian Troy, a 64-year-old man with profound intellectual and physical disabilities including autism, epilepsy, and cerebral palsy, died from complications of a malignant cerebral tumour. He was diagnosed in January 2020 …
84y · Male·effects of fire
Stanley Hayhurst, an 84-year-old man who was hearing and vision impaired, died from the effects of fire while attempting to escape the Aberfeldy bushfire that…
48y · Female·Unascertained; presumed sudden cardiac arrhythmia
A 48-year-old woman with cerebral palsy, intellectual disability, and multiple comorbidities died unexpectedly in residential care. Post-mortem examination showed acute pulmonary oedema and intra-alveolar haemorrhage wit…
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