Coronial
QLDhospital2017-06-22

Mead, Gwendoline

73y · Female·Multiple organ failure due to or as a consequence of sepsis due to or as a conse…

73-year-old woman died 12 days after elective colorectal surgery for synchronous caecal and rectal tumours. Post-operatively, she developed persistent low urine output and intermittent hypotension managed with repeated f…

colorectal surgerygeneral surgerydiagnosticdelay5-fluorouracil
QLDhospital2016-03-18

McGuane, Shirley Fay - Non-inquest findings

84y · Female·Myocardial infarction

…ng possible myocardial infarction. Significant anaemia (Hb 72, down from 127) and signs of deterioration (oliguria, tachycardia, drowsiness) were not adequately escalated or investigated. No MERT call was made despite me…

surgerycardiologydiagnosticcommunicationwarfarin
VIChospital2014-11-28

Finding into death of June Olive Pegg

80y · Female·peritonitis due to sigmoid resection margin leak following extended right hemico…

June Olive Pegg, 80, died from peritonitis following anastomotic leak after extended right hemicolectomy for colonic cancer. Critical delays in diagnosis occurred: a PET scan in May 2010 showed a colonic mass, but respir…

colorectal surgerygeneral surgerydiagnosticdelayfurosemide
VIChospital2024-10-29

Finding into death of Shane Hughes

40y · Male·Acute hepatic and renal failure in the setting of postoperative haemorrhage foll…

A 40-year-old man with obesity, COPD, diabetes and hypertension died from acute hepatic and renal failure following postoperative haemorrhage after left radical nephrectomy for a 10cm renal cell carcinoma. The surgeon ap…

urologysurgeryproceduraldiagnosticmetaraminol
WAhospital2010-03-03

Inquest into the Death of McLevie

38y · Female·Streptococcus Group A Septicaemia (Post Partum-Puerperal Sepsis)

Susannah McLevie, a 38-year-old woman, died on 6 April 2006 from untreated Group A Streptococcal septicaemia (puerperal sepsis) following childbirth at Osborne Park Hospital. She developed fever (38°C) at 3am on 5 April,…

obstetricsmidwiferydiagnosticcommunicationparacetamol/codeine

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