258 results for “hypoxic_brain_injury”
49y · Male·Hypoxic brain injury following cardiac arrest due to myocardial infarction with …
Trevor William Brown, a 49-year-old Aboriginal man with chronic schizophrenia, died from hypoxic brain injury following cardiac arrest due to acute myocardial infarction with right coronary artery thrombosis while in psy…
3y · Unknown·hypoxic brain injury as a result of asphyxia from choking on a rubber ball
A 3-year-old boy died from hypoxic brain injury after aspirating a small rubber bouncy ball at home. The ball was purchased online for his upcoming birthday party and arrived with appropriate choking hazard warnings for …
28y · Male·hypoxic brain injury presumed to have occurred as a direct result from toxicity …
Christian Gonzalo Diaz, 28, died from hypoxic brain injury following presumed heroin toxicity on 9 January 2008. He was an involuntary psychiatric inpatient with schizophrenia and substance abuse history when he absconde…
53y · Male·Complications of hypoxic brain injury secondary to mixed drug toxicity (methylam…
BT, a 53-year-old man with substance use disorder and mental health conditions, died from complications of hypoxic brain injury secondary to mixed drug toxicity (methylamphetamine, benzodiazepines, metonitazene). He inje…
36y · Male·hypoxic brain injury and myocardial ischaemia following cardiac arrest during re…
A 36-year-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 myo…
49y · Male·pneumonia, hypoxic brain injury and cardiac arrest
49-year-old male with chronic cannabis dependence and depression developed post-surgical delirium following emergency anterior resection for perforated diverticulum. He became acutely agitated and paranoid, was detained …
52y · Female·Hypoxic brain injury due to hypotension in a woman with documented electrocardio…
Elizabeth Holley, 52 years old, was admitted involuntarily to a psychiatric ward with a history of three weeks of declining mental health and medication non-compliance. She received high-dose antipsychotic medications in…
4y · Male·hypoxic brain injury complicating out of hospital cardiac arrest (unknown cause)
Xavier Hart, a 4-year-old boy with obstructive sleep apnoea due to adenotonsillar hypertrophy, was found unresponsive and apnoeic at home on 21 December 2011. Despite immediate CPR and intensive resuscitation, he suffere…
45y · Female·Epilepsy
45-year-old woman with chronic epilepsy and intellectual disability died following a prolonged seizure with cardiac arrest at a supported accommodation facility. She was found fitting, became unresponsive and apnoeic wit…
3y · Male·Hypoxic brain injury secondary to cardiorespiratory arrest, possibly secondary t…
Master T, aged 3 years, died from hypoxic brain injury secondary to cardiorespiratory arrest, likely due to aspiration pneumonitis. He had severe congenital abnormalities including holoprosencephaly with VP shunt, anal a…
58y · Female·pneumonia and cardiac failure complicated by hypoxic brain injury
A 58-year-old woman with autism and severe intellectual disability died from pneumonia and cardiac failure complicated by hypoxic brain injury following cardiac arrest. She had been institutionalised at Graylands Hospita…
19y · Unknown·hypoxic brain injury following cardiac arrest as a result of injuries sustained …
Two teenagers, Eliza Wannan (19) and William Dalton-Brown (19), died from hypoxic brain injury following cardiac arrest after being run over and crushed by a vehicle driven by a 17-year-old learner driver at a private pr…
59y · Female·Diffuse hypoxic brain injury complicating aspiration of gastric contents during …
Janine Hunn, a 59-year-old woman with Angelman syndrome, severe intellectual disability, kyphoscoliosis, and a history of epilepsy and recurrent aspiration pneumonia, died from hypoxic brain injury following aspiration o…
31y · Male·global hypoxic brain injury secondary to positional asphyxia following an epilep…
KL, a 31-year-old male with longstanding epilepsy, died from global hypoxic brain injury caused by positional asphyxia following an epileptic seizure at home on 26 April 2019. He fell in the toilet during a seizure, beca…
37y · Male·Hypoxic brain injury from low-voltage electrocution
A licensed electrical worker died from hypoxic brain injury three days after receiving a low-voltage electrocution. While installing new rising mains at an office building, he threaded an earth conductor through a live c…
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 anaphylaxis after ingesting walnuts, lik…
38y · Male·Urosepsis
John Miklosowa, a 38-year-old man with Down syndrome and severe intellectual disability, died from urosepsis after rapid deterioration at his residential facility on 28 March 2009. He had a permanent suprapubic catheter …
48y · Male·Hypoxic brain injury following cardiac arrest in a patient with sigmoid colon vo…
Daniel Allan Sullivan, a 48-year-old man with chronic paranoid schizophrenia who had been an involuntary patient at Graylands Hospital for 23 years, presented to Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital on 13 June 2004 with abdomin…
54y · Male·Global hypoxic brain injury, cardiac arrest and blunt trauma to cervical spine
JI, a 54-year-old man with chronic schizophrenia, died from global hypoxic brain injury, cardiac arrest and cervical spine trauma following a fall onto a metal grate during an altercation with another resident at support…
70y · Male·spontaneous left frontal intracerebral haemorrhage
A 70-year-old man incarcerated at Yatala Labour Prison died from spontaneous left frontal intracerebral haemorrhage at Modbury Hospital. He had pre-existing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, severe interstitial lung…
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