16 results for “magnetic resonance imaging”
0y · Female·Right ventricular failure secondary to pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal…
…required immediate intensive support. Despite appropriate multidisciplinary care including serial cardiac imaging, medical management, and 15 cardiac surgical procedures, she developed progressive complications includin…
68y · Female·Terminal palliation in the setting of ischaemic liver and bronchopneumonia
…d food refusal. Her GP suspected normal pressure hydrocephalus and sought neurological assessment and MRI imaging. However, medical decision-making was substantially hampered by the absence of a medical guardian or fami…
15y · Male·pneumonia in the setting of cerebral palsy and epilepsy
Travis Blows, a 15-year-old with cerebral palsy and difficult-to-control epilepsy, died from pneumonia after a prolonged PICU admission. He presented to ED multiple times in the months before death with seizures and feve…
79y · Female·Complications of injuries sustained in a motor vehicle collision (passenger)
Erika Maria Gerlach, aged 79, died from complications of injuries sustained in a rear-end motor vehicle collision on 27 November 2017. She was a passenger when her husband's vehicle collided with a stationary car on the …
0y · Female·Global hypoxic-ischaemic injury of unknown cause
A three-day-old girl, Baby Kirat, died from global hypoxic-ischaemic brain injury sustained during co-sleeping with her mother in a hospital maternity ward on 9 July 2013. She was resuscitated and transferred to NICU but…
99y · Male·Pneumonia
A 99-year-old man with cognitive decline sustained a hip fracture from a fall and subsequently underwent surgery with informed consent. He suffered cardiopulmonary arrest post-operatively and was resuscitated despite the…
68y · Male·Ischaemic infarction of the right cerebral hemisphere and cerebellum due to thro…
A 68-year-old man died from ischaemic stroke (basilar artery and right posterior cerebral artery thrombosis) seven days after being struck by a motor vehicle while attempting to cross Warrigal Road, Hughesdale. The colli…
38y · Male·Pulmonary thromboembolism in the setting of deep vein thrombosis
Kevin Harris, a 38-year-old man with obesity, sustained a left tibial plateau fracture from a workplace fall on 27 December 2022. His general practitioner managed the injury conservatively with rest, ice, and anti-inflam…
36y · Male·Global hypoxic brain injury due to hanging
Benjamin Johnston, a 36-year-old male, died by hanging after six weeks of varenicline (Champix) treatment for smoking cessation. Two weeks before death, his partner noted significant behavioral changes: withdrawal, irrit…
68y · Male·Pulmonary thromboembolus secondary to deep vein thrombosis
Ronald Wood, a 68-year-old with complex medical history including prior pulmonary emboli, was treated for rectal cancer requiring chemotherapy and major surgery. Warfarin anticoagulation was appropriately ceased due to b…
10y · Male·Unascertained - sudden and unexpected death; evidence did not allow determinatio…
Ezekiel Howard, a 10-year-old boy, died suddenly in his sleep on 12 September 2011. His death remains unexplained despite extensive investigation. The coroner could not determine whether death resulted from undiagnosed e…
73y · Male·Complications of cervical fractures and spinal injury (operated), sustained in a…
A 73-year-old man with multiple comorbidities (diabetes, cardiac disease, liver cancer) slipped on wet tiles outside McDonald's and sustained cervical and thoracic spine fractures with spinal cord injury. Attending param…
61y · Male·Hypoxic encephalopathy arising from cardiac arrest following self-removal of a c…
Kelvin Moulds, a 61-year-old man, died of hypoxic encephalopathy following a cardiac arrest caused by self-removal of a central venous catheter (CVC) on day 14 post-bilateral lung transplant. The CVC was still in situ de…
0y · Male·Perinatal hypoxia
Baby R, born at 39 weeks 6 days via planned homebirth with private midwives, died from perinatal hypoxia on day 6 of life. The mother had significant obstetric risk factors: previous emergency caesarean section, macrosom…
3y · Male·Brainstem ischaemia in association with Arnold Chiari malformation
Matthew Whyte, a 3-year-old with Arnold Chiari malformation and hydrocephalus, died from brainstem ischaemia following multiple shunt complications and emergency decompression surgery. The coroner found that after Matthe…
2y · Unknown·Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy following sepsis related to abdominal surgical …
BCT was a 2-year-old Aboriginal child with complex needs from a genetic disorder (CAMTA1 mutation) who died from hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy following sepsis related to bowel perforation after a percutaneous endosco…
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