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458 results for multiple comorbidities

VICaged care2025-03-11

Finding into death of Dianne Elizabeth Harper

64y · Female·Aspiration pneumonia in a woman with multiple comorbidities

A 64-year-old woman with severe intellectual disability and multiple comorbidities died from aspiration pneumonia while in specialist disability accommodation. She had docume…

geriatric medicinespeech pathology
VICaged care2016-06-14

Finding into death of Michael Robert Faulks

63y · Male·complications of hepatic cirrhosis in a man with multiple comorbidities

Michael Faulks, a 63-year-old man with multiple comorbidities including hepatic cirrhosis, hepatitis B, ischaemic heart disease, and intellectual disabil…

palliative caregeneral medicine
VIChospital2026-01-29

Finding into death of William Anthony Daniel

72y · Male·Complications of a gastroduodenal perforation (palliated) in the setting of mult…

William Anthony Daniel, a 72-year-old SDA resident with intellectual impairment and multiple comorbidities, presented to Box Hill Hospital on 7 November 2024 with postural hypotension, nausea, vomit…

general surgeryemergency medicineantibiotics
VIChospital2017-06-27

Finding into death of Clifford Norrie Wall

79y · Male·Aspiration pneumonia in the setting of small bowel obstruction

A 79-year-old man with intellectual disability and multiple comorbidities (atrial fibrillation, COPD, epilepsy) presented with vomiting on 9 June 2016. His GP was in…

general medicineemergency medicine
VIChospital2016-12-30

Finding into death of Shirley Goodall

66y · Female·Pneumonia in a woman with multiple medical comorbidities

… with upper respiratory tract infection, discharged, then presented to the locum and general practitioner multiple times between late September and late October with ongoing health deterioration. She was not improving de…

general practicecardiology
VIChospital2026-02-23

Finding into death of William Thomas Kerby

80y · Male·Pneumonia in a man with multiple medical comorbidities

…isability service provider (Aruma) or hospital staff. The death was from natural causes in the context of multiple medical comorbidities. No preventable factors were identified.

emergency medicineinfectious diseases
VIChospital2016-06-14

Finding into death of Alan James Drake

58y · Male·Pneumonia and urosepsis in a man with multiple comorbidities including Down synd…

Alan James Drake, 58-year-old man with Down syndrome and multiple comorbidities, died of pneumonia and urosepsis. He presented to his GP on 16 July with suspected urinary …

general practiceemergency medicine
VIC2015-10-30

Finding into death of Robert Przychodski

48y · Male·Anaplastic astrocytoma

…stic astrocytoma, died in the Werribee Mercy Palliative Care Unit from his brain tumour. He had undergone multiple surgical resections and chemotherapy since 1986. In January 2015, rapid deterioration with neurological d…

psychiatryneurosurgery
VIChospital2021-12-10

Finding into death of Ronald Jelbert

90y · Male·Sepsis in the setting of cachexia in a man with multiple comorbidities

…hology, and subsequently diagnosed advanced prostate cancer. He was severely malnourished (BMI 13.5) with multiple comorbidities. Despite initial response to antibiotics, he rapidly declined and was transitioned to palli…

emergency medicinegeneral medicine
SA2025-12-08

Coroner's Finding: Mountford, Raymond Malcolm Edward

82y · Male·Ischaemic and hypertensive heart disease

An 82-year-old man with extensive medical comorbidities including ischaemic heart disease, triple vessel coronary artery disease (previously bypass grafted), …

cardiologygeriatric medicinefurosemide
SAhospital2000-07-21

Coroner's Finding: TILBROOK James Henry

76y · Male·pneumonia

…d man with dementia, detained under the Mental Health Act at Glenside Hospital, died of pneumonia. He had multiple comorbidities including congestive cardiac failure and irregular pulse. On 3 November, his pneumonia was …

psychiatrygeneral medicinemorphine
VIChospital2017-08-31

Finding into death of Kenneth Albert Hargreaves

70y · Male·Metastatic tumour in the setting of known renal and bowel cancer

Kenneth Albert Hargreaves, a 70-year-old man with extensive medical comorbidities including renal and bowel cancer, lymphoma, Parkinson's disease, and cardiac disease, died from metast…

palliative careorthopaedic surgery
VIChome2019

Finding into death of Timothy Shane Norton

46y · Male·Complications of stage 4 colorectal cancer in a man with multiple medical comorb…

…l factors in his death. The death resulted from natural progression of terminal illness in a patient with multiple comorbidities.

colorectal surgeryoncology
VIChospital2024-07-12

Finding into death of Wayne Duncan Miller

55y · Male·Multiorgan failure and septic shock complicating parasitic gastrointestinal infe…

A 55-year-old man with severe intellectual disability and multiple comorbidities died from multiorgan failure and septic shock due to parasitic gastrointestinal infection. …

general practiceemergency medicineparacetamol
VIChome2025-04-01

Finding into death of Andrew Cameron McDougall

57y · Male·Bilateral bronchopneumonia in a man with asthma, tetraplegia and multiple other …

Andrew McDougall, 57, a man with complex medical comorbidities including tetraplegia, COPD, asthma, ischaemic heart disease and diabetes, died from bilateral broncho…

respiratory medicinegeneral practiceoxycodone
NSWhospital2017-08-21

Inquest into the death of Donald McKinnon

82y · Male·complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer with end stage liver failure

…al sentence. He was comprehensively assessed on entry to prison and housed in an Aged Care Unit where his multiple comorbidities (diabetes, cardiac disease, sleep apnoea, dementia) were regularly managed with physiothera…

oncologygastroenterology
SAhospital2021-11-23

Coroner's Finding: Osborne, Brian Thomas

89y · Male·combined effects of cerebrovascular accident, pneumonia and chronic cardiac fail…

An 89-year-old man with multiple comorbidities (ischaemic heart disease, diabetes, COPD) presented with chest infection and was admitted f…

cardiologyneurologyinsulin
VIChospital2016-12-15

Finding into death of Henry Francis Oakley

85y · Male·pneumonia

An 85-year-old man with multiple comorbidities (ischaemic heart disease, COPD, atrial fibrillation, dementia) died from pneumonia while in…

emergency medicineinfectious diseasesamitriptyline
QLDhospital2017-10-17

SWK - Non inquest findings

78y · Female·multi-organ failure due to haemorrhage into the abdomen, pelvis and retroperiton…

…neal haemorrhage following extensive anterior and posterior lumbar spinal fusion surgery. The patient had multiple comorbidities, previous spinal surgery with persistent pain, osteoporosis, and religious refusal of blood…

spinal surgeryorthopaedic surgeryproceduraldiagnosticaramine
VIC2024-12-16

Finding into death of Caroline Monique Hall

52y · Female·Spinal injuries sustained in falls in a woman with multiple medical comorbiditie…

Caroline Monique Hall, a 52-year-old woman with intellectual disability, epilepsy, schizophrenia, and multiple comorbidities living in supported disability accommodation, died from spinal injuries sustained in falls.…

general practiceemergency medicinediagnosticdelaymorphine
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