31 results for “massive head trauma”
18y · Male·multiple injuries
…ng to negotiate a bend while being pursued by police. He was ejected from the vehicle and suffered a closed head injury with subdural haematoma and severe pelvic fractures with blood loss. First aid at the scene was appr…
1y · Male·Massive head injury
Kalon Tippett, aged 21 months, died from massive head injuries sustained when he fell from a tractor bucket and was run over on a family farm. The child w…
3y · Male·Multiple blunt force injuries including massive head injury, fractured skull, fr…
A 3-year-old boy died from massive blunt force injuries sustained in a motor vehicle crash when the unsecured child seat in which he was tra…
Multiple fatal injuries sustained in motor vehicle accident; for driver (Blockle…
Five young workers died in a motor vehicle accident on 7 April 2006 when the driver, aged 20, was travelling at 150-160 km/h and attempted an unsafe overtaking maneuver on the Toowoomba-Cecil Plains Road. The driver lost…
16y · Female·Massive head injury due to motor vehicle accident
Emily Jade Payne, 16, died from massive head injuries sustained when the vehicle she was travelling in crashed into a tree on a rural unsealed ro…
23y · Male·traumatic closed head injury (diffuse axonal injury)
A 23-year-old male died from traumatic closed head injury (diffuse axonal injury) following a single-vehicle motor crash. He was speeding (142…
17y · Male·massive head injury sustained in a fall from height (approximately 3.5 metres th…
A 17-year-old male died from massive head injury sustained in a fall from approximately 3.5 metres through a shade sail at a primary school. H…
55y · Male·Head and chest injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash
Christopher Darren Dodd, aged 55, died from head and chest injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash on 14 February 2021 in rural Tasmania. He was travelling…
49y · Male·massive non-survivable head, trunk and limb injuries from a 100-metre fall
Peter Chilvers, a 49-year-old experienced mountaineer, died from massive head, trunk and limb injuries sustained in a 100-metre fall while abseiling on Mt Geryon. He tied two 60-…
20y · Male·massive basal subarachnoid haemorrhage caused by a blow to the head
…quest 45 years later, based on neuropathological expert evidence, found the haemorrhage was caused by blunt head trauma (a punch to the head), not natural causes. The original 1971 death certificate was incorrect. The ke…
7y · Male·Multiple blunt injuries from being struck by a falling tree
A 7-year-old boy died from massive head injuries after being struck by a tree felled by an adult who was illegally cutting wood in a remote …
26y · Male·multiple injuries sustained in a single motorcycle crash
…negotiate a sweeping left-hand bend, left the road, and struck steel barrier cables and posts, sustaining massive head injuries, cardiac laceration, thoracic spinal fractures, and abdominal bleeding. This case illustrat…
75y · Male·acute right subdural haemorrhage sustained in a fall
George Triantafilopoulos, a 75-year-old man on warfarin after aortic valve replacement, suffered two head strikes within 24 hours—first falling onto concrete at a supermarket on 14 August 2014, then falling onto c…
44y · Female·blunt force head injuries
Kerry Lyn Michael, 44, died from blunt force head injuries sustained during a homicidal attack by her husband Robin Michael on Mount Roland, Tasmania on 11 F…
77y · Female·Subdural haematoma secondary to blunt head trauma (head-strike)
… 77-year-old woman on warfarin for atrial fibrillation presented to Sandringham Hospital after striking her head on a wall. Despite being on anticoagulation therapy, no CT scan was performed, and she was discharged after…
47y · Male·pulmonary thromboembolism due to deep vein thrombosis caused by multiple injurie…
Daniel Brian Johnson, aged 47, sustained multiple serious injuries in a head-on motor vehicle crash on 7 February 2023 and was admitted to Launceston General Hospital. He initially pro…
20y · Male·Closed head injury
Jason Troy Barber, aged 20, died from severe closed head injuries sustained in a motor vehicle collision on 3 October 2000. He had been driving a stolen vehicle rec…
80y · Female·acute subdural haematoma following a fall while on warfarin for atrial fibrillat…
Mrs Bowerman, aged 80, fell at home on warfarin anticoagulation and sustained a minor head injury with no initial neurological signs. Paramedic Turnbull assessed her as requiring no transport (TNR),…
68y · Female·Complications of a right subdural haemorrhage (palliated), sustained in a fall
…e had sustained three falls during admission, with the final unwitnessed fall on 14 May 2017 resulting in massive intracranial bleeding. Clinical assessment after earlier falls may have underestimated injury risk. The c…
0y · Male·Complications following forceps delivery
…l delivery, improve situational awareness in neonatal resuscitation, and develop statewide guidelines for massive transfusion in neonates.
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