10 results for “jejunostomy”
66y · Male·Injuries sustained in fall from height
…l from his third-floor balcony. He had recently commenced Duodopa treatment via percutaneous endoscopic jejunostomy for motor fluctuations, which initially showed good response but caused daytime sleepiness. He was foun…
64y · Male·aspiration pneumonia following insertion of a jejunostomy tube
…al palsy, oropharyngeal dysphagia, and recurrent aspiration pneumonia, underwent insertion of a feeding jejunostomy tube (FJT) on 23 December 2004 to bypass his stomach and improve nutrition. The tube was misplaced in t…
72y · Male·pneumonia in a man with metastatic colon cancer
…metastatic colon cancer. He underwent surgery including palliative bypasses and later a gastrostomy and jejunostomy for nutritional support. Despite chemotherapy and active medical management, he deteriorated progressiv…
11y · Male·Bronchopneumonia and small bowel necrosis with perforation, in a boy with multic…
Child MML was an Aboriginal boy born in April 2010 who suffered catastrophic abusive head trauma at eight months old in December 2010, causing severe lifelong neurological impairment including cerebral palsy, uncontrolle…
50y · Male·Sepsis of unknown organism in respiratory
Mark Ruth, a 50-year-old NDIS participant with cerebral palsy, intellectual disability, chronic dysphagia, and obstructive sleep apnoea, died from sepsis of unknown respiratory organism. He had experienced declining heal…
11y · Female·Pneumonia complicating cerebral palsy secondary to KCNQ2 developmental and epile…
HD was an 11-year-old girl with severe cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and multiple complex medical conditions including central respiratory depression and recurrent chest infections. She died from pneumonia at home in August …
5y · Male·aspiration pneumonia with terminal palliative care, in a male child with complex…
A 5-year-old boy with severe congenital myopathy and arthrogryposis died from aspiration pneumonia following terminal palliative care. He had multiple complex medical needs including unsafe swallowing, recurrent respirat…
76y · Female·multi-organ failure and sepsis due to complications of cholecystectomy
A 76-year-old woman died from multi-organ failure and sepsis following a laparoscopic cholecystectomy at a rural hospital. During surgery, the surgeon became misoriented in the inflamed surgical field and divided the com…
66y · Female·acute necrotising haemorrhagic mediastinitis
Mrs Pratt, aged 66, underwent elective gastroscopy at Kapunda Hospital. During the procedure she heaved, and blood was noted at the gastro-oesophageal junction. She was discharged the same afternoon with pain, only to re…
2y · Unknown·Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy following sepsis related to abdominal surgical …
…emic encephalopathy following sepsis related to bowel perforation after a percutaneous endoscopic gastrojejunostomy (PEG-J) procedure. Critical failures included: delay in recognising bowel perforation as the cause of c…
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