21 results for “hypoxic episode”
4y · 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…
46y · Female·hypoxic ischaemic brain injury as a result of cardiac arrest following a choking…
…l, a 46-year-old woman with Osmotic Demyelination Syndrome (ODS) and acute psychiatric illness, died from hypoxic brain injury following a choking episode during a meal in a psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU). She h…
0y · Female·Hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy caused by multiple factors including lung abnor…
Elsie Coghill, a newborn, died from hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy due to multiple factors including an underlying lung abnormality from antenatal …
1y · Female·sudden unexpected death in infancy due to hypoxic episode while co-bedding with …
Arisa Huber, a newborn, died from sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI) due to hypoxic episode while co-bedding with her exhausted mother in a postnatal ward. The infant was found without brea…
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…
69y · Male·bronchopneumonia and hypoxic brain injury following aspiration of food (choking)
…and suffered a cardiac arrest. Despite resuscitation and ICU admission, he died from bronchopneumonia and hypoxic brain injury. The coroner found the death was accidental and supervision was reasonable, as choking was n…
0y · Female·Head injury
…iveness, and dry mouth. Parents did not seek medical attention immediately despite a previously witnessed episode of her becoming pale, cold and stiff. Later that morning she suffered cardiopulmonary arrest. Imaging rev…
Female·Stacey Meas: severe closed head injury from motor vehicle collision. Courtney Me…
…ck hers at a traffic light. Her unborn daughter, Courtney, was born via emergency caesarean but died from hypoxic brain injury 8 days later. The driver had developed hypoglycaemic unawareness due to inadequate blood glu…
64y · Male·hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy and its complications following cardiac arrest …
Christopher Lens, a 64-year-old man with schizophrenia under guardianship at a nursing home, died from hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy following cardiac arrest due to upper airway obstruction after choking on a pean…
78y · Female·aspiration on a background of psychogenic dysphagia, intellectual impairment and…
…ychiatry teams with subcutaneous fluid administration. On 6 November 2014, she had a vomiting and choking episode followed by a MET call. Following discussion with her sister, palliative care was initiated. She suffered…
0y · Male·Head injury sustained in a difficult delivery including head impaction and caesa…
Baby Sidney died from severe hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy caused by head impaction during a difficult vaginal delivery attempt and subsequ…
68y · Male·pulmonary thromboembolism in the setting of recent surgery
…xamination, investigations and differential diagnosis approach were appropriate at that time. A vasovagal episode occurred post-shower at 10am but was reasonably attributed to post-operative recovery. No CTPA was perfor…
0y · Male·hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy due to prolonged fetal bradycardia
Jayden Tyler Trimboli, aged 6 days, died from hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy caused by a prolonged fetal bradycardia episode between 11:10pm and 11:50pm on 1…
28y · Male·Acute Dopamine Imbalance Syndrome
A 28-year-old man with first-episode psychosis presented with command auditory hallucinations after a motor vehicle accident. An EEG ordered t…
30y · Female·Hypoxic brain injury due to mixed drug toxicity (vecuronium and atropine self-in…
…e Wallace-Mohlmann, a 30-year-old woman with chronic schizophrenia and substance abuse history, died from hypoxic brain injury caused by self-injection of vecuronium and atropine obtained from a hospital storeroom. She …
0y · Female·Hypoxic episode, probably caused by cord entanglement during delivery
A neonate (Roisin) died within 90 minutes of unattended home birth on 27 March 2009. The mother, Janet Fraser, is an advocate for natural birth and rejected all antenatal care despite risk factors including previous caes…
21y · Male·Acute hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy and pneumonia in a man with recent trauma…
Peter Martin Carroll, age 21, died on 8 June 2007 in the ICU at Royal Perth Hospital from acute hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy and pneumonia following oxycodone overdose. He had been discharged that day (5 J…
51y · Female·Aspiration in the setting of end stage down syndrome
…ndrome, end-stage hydrocephalus, and severe dysphagia, died from aspiration pneumonia following a choking episode while eating. The Disability Services Commissioner investigation identified critical gaps in her care: no…
40y · Female·hypoxic encephalopathy and epilepsy with diffuse fibrillary astrocytoma within t…
…line personality disorder, and recent seizures, died at the Royal Adelaide Hospital on 16 March 2008 from hypoxic encephalopathy caused by cardiac arrest following an epileptic seizure while in remand custody at Adelaid…
24y · Male·Hypoxic brain injury secondary to hanging
BJ, a 24-year-old with paranoid schizophrenia, substance abuse disorder, and anti-social personality disorder, died by hanging in a psychiatric unit after a suicide attempt. He was admitted on 4 January 2016 with suicida…
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