61 results for “hypoxic brain damage”
<1y · Male·hypoxic brain damage due to laryngeal obstruction from foreign body (metal screw…
An 11-month-old boy died from hypoxic brain damage following aspiration of a 2cm metal screw that lodged in his larynx. The child was left brie…
51y · Male·Hypoxic/ischaemic brain damage following head and chest injuries sustained in a …
David Scott Holmes, a 51-year-old truck driver, died from hypoxic-ischaemic brain damage following a truck rollover on 7 April 2016. He suddenly veered off the Midlands Hi…
5y · Female·Hypoxic-ischaemic Encephalopathy due to methadone toxicity
LA, a five-year-old girl, died from hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy due to methadone toxicity on 22 January 2017. She ingested methadone at her gran…
67y · Male·Acute myocardial infarction
…delay. He suffered cardiac arrest, was resuscitated by paramedics, but remained comatose with significant hypoxic damage. He died at Rockhampton Base Hospital on 7 June 2011. The coroner found the infarction was likely …
39y · Male·hypoxic/ischaemic brain damage due to crush injury of chest and abdomen
…k and fell on him. Co-workers rescued him and commenced CPR; he was transported to hospital but died from hypoxic-ischaemic brain damage. This wholly preventable death highlights critical safety practice: jack stands mu…
23y · Male·Hanging
… bathroom approximately 7 minutes after arrival. Although CPR was initiated and he was transported to ICU, brain damage from hypoxia was irreversible. The coroner found no police misconduct but identified a systems fail…
34y · Female·hypoxic brain damage complicating fresh water drowning
Alice Louise McTye, a 34-year-old woman with severe intellectual disability and epilepsy, died from hypoxic brain damage following fresh water drowning in a bath at a disability services residence. The coroner fou…
<1y · Female·hypoxic brain injuries
A 4-month-old girl died from hypoxic brain injury following an unexplained, unnatural restriction of oxygen on 13 May 2017. She was found unre…
<1y · Female·bronchopneumonia caused by hypoxic brain damage caused or contributed to by meni…
A 9-month-old Aboriginal girl died from bronchopneumonia caused by hypoxic brain damage following cardiorespiratory arrest due to meningitis and seizures. During resuscitation at a…
30y · Male·Heroin overdose
Fikri Memedovski, aged 30, died from heroin overdose with resulting cardiopulmonary arrest and anoxic brain damage on 23 November 2009 at Dandenong Hospital. The clinical lesson concerns reporting obligations: Dr L…
57y · Female·right bronchopneumonia following hypoxic brain damage secondary to cardiac arres…
…ntion under the Mental Health Act. She was found in cardiac arrest on 8 December 2001 and suffered severe hypoxic brain injury, dying from bronchopneumonia. While hypoglycaemia was present (BSL 2.1-2.4 mmol/L) and has b…
34y · Male·Hypoxic-ischaemic brain injury caused by hanging
Craig Stevens, aged 34, died from hypoxic-ischaemic brain injury following a suicide by hanging on 17 June 2008. Despite police intervention, criti…
17y · Unknown·hypoxic brain damage from out of hospital cardiac arrest
…On 2 July 2020, he aspirated while drinking water, suffered out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, and died from hypoxic brain damage. Contributing factors included his underlying short bowel syndrome, liver/pancreatic/splenic…
36y · Male·hypoxic brain injury and myocardial ischaemia following cardiac arrest during re…
…ar-old man with methylamphetamine intoxication was restrained by civilians and police following a property damage incident. He experienced cardiac arrest during restraint and died from hypoxic brain injury and myocardial…
20y · Female·Head injuries due to or as a consequence of motor vehicle accident
…e power pole. Chloe sustained severe injuries including subarachnoid haemorrhage, multiple fractures, and hypoxic brain damage. She received appropriate medical management at Gladstone Base Hospital and Royal Brisbane H…
44y · Male·Hypoxic brain injury secondary to heroin and alcohol toxicity
A 44-year-old male died from hypoxic brain injury caused by heroin and alcohol toxicity following an overdose. He had a history of depression,…
25y · Male·positional asphyxia in a man with extensive old hypoxic brain damage, acute ches…
Corey Paddy, a 25-year-old Aboriginal man with severe hypoxic brain injury from a 1998 car accident, died at Katherine Hospital from positional asphyxia while receivin…
Male·Hypoxic brain injury secondary to anaphylaxis caused by walnut ingestion
Raymond Cho, a secondary school student with a known walnut allergy, died of hypoxic brain injury following anaphylaxis at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital on 24 May 2011. He suffered anaphylaxi…
Unknown·Ms Choi: hypoxic brain damage due to drowning/immersion due to rafting accident;…
… and flip. Both occupants became entrapped underwater. Ms Choi was rescued and received CPR but died from hypoxic brain damage five days later. Mr Park remained entrapped and died from drowning with crush injuries. The …
Female·bilateral acute bronchopneumonia
…earl Ghobrial died from bilateral acute bronchopneumonia at a nursing home in September 2001, following a hypoxic brain injury sustained from a hanging attempt in March 2000. The coroner found the death resulted inevita…
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