50y · Male·Complications of urosepsis in the setting of T3/4 paraplegia
George Mavraganis, a 50-year-old man with T3/4 paraplegia from a childhood injury, was residing in supported accommodation. He had a chronic indwelling urinary ca…
59y · Male·Respiratory failure with paraplegia as a significant contributing factor
Michael Ruawai Robin, a 59-year-old man with paraplegia and incomplete quadriplegia (C4-C6), died from respiratory failure at Werribee Mercy Hospital on 22 June…
44y · Male·pneumonia and possible large left cerebrovascular accident (stroke) in a man wit…
Jamie Alan White, a 44-year-old man with neurofibromatosis, paraplegia, sleep apnoea, and chronic respiratory issues, was found unresponsive in his residential care unit bed o…
69y · Male·neck compression due to hanging
GL, a 69-year-old Chinese national, died by hanging in Long Bay Correctional Centre's Medical Services Unit on 12 April 2022. He was incarcerated following the murder of his wife in September 2020 and had become a parapl…
39y · Female·smoke inhalation
Cheryl May Currie, 39, with complete paraplegia from a 1998 spinal cord injury, died from smoke inhalation in a bedroom fire on 12 June 2009. The fire w…
84y · Male·Pneumonia complicating fractured cervical spine in the setting of fall
An 84-year-old man died from pneumonia and Type 2 respiratory failure nine days after sustaining a severe cervical spine fracture from a fall on a bus. Following the acute traumatic injury, he was appropriately managed i…
54y · Male·Complications following an old prior cerebrovascular accident - aspiration pneum…
Gary Mayrhofer, a 54-year-old man with cerebral palsy, intellectual disability, epilepsy and visual impairment, died from aspiration pneumonia following a stroke in September 2023 that caused right-sided paralysis and sw…
48y · Male·Multiple injuries in a pedestrian struck by a bus
…orse Road. He sustained severe injuries including traumatic subarachnoid haemorrhage, spinal injury with paraplegia, ruptured tricuspid valve, and multiple rib fractures. He underwent open heart surgery but developed car…
89y · Male·fractured cervical spine (C5 inferior articular process fracture) due to unwitne…
…ional therapist caused ligament disruption and spinal cord compression, converting the injury to a C5-C6 paraplegia/quadriplegia. An MRI scan would have detected the ligamentous injury and prevented mobilisation. The pat…
67y · Male·Complications of pressure ulcers in the setting of a thoracic vertebral fracture…
Michael Young, 67, died from pressure ulcer complications following a spinal injury sustained during a CT scan on 3 January 2023. He had fallen from his wheelchair at home and presented to ED with hypotension and back pa…
76y · Female·Major organ failure secondary to sepsis due to gram-positive bacteraemia from ur…
Patricia Northcote, a 76-year-old paraplegic woman with advancing dementia, died from sepsis secondary to urinary tract infection complicated by a sacral pressure sore. The pressure injury developed in November 2012 at a…
27y · Male·multiple organ failure due to the consequences of multiple gunshot wounds to the…
Mahmoud Houri died aged 27 in custody from multiple organ failure, a consequence of gunshot wounds sustained in 2002. The inquest examined whether appropriate care was provided on 21 August 2008 when he presented with vo…
66y · Male·Bronchopneumonia
Adrian Carlin, a 66-year-old man with Down syndrome, dementia, epilepsy, motor disorder and multiple comorbidities, died of bronchopneumonia at St Vincent's Hospital after aspiration pneumonia. He had been admitted 13 ti…
37y · Female·Unknown - Open Finding
Debra Joy Donnachy, aged 37, disappeared from her home in Armadale, Western Australia on or about 14 May 1992. She had left-sided paralysis from a 1978 strangulation injury by her husband James Donnachy, which significan…
46y · Male·Aspiration pneumonia complicating epistaxis in the setting of prolonged nasal pr…
Hau Bui Nguyen, a 46-year-old man with severe acquired brain injury, dysphagia, and recurrent aspiration pneumonia, died from aspiration pneumonia complicating epistaxis following prolonged nasal prong oxygen therapy. Du…
45y · Male·Complications of VATS procedure for locally advanced right upper lobe lung adeno…
A 45-year-old man died from complications following VATS lobectomy for lung adenocarcinoma. During initial surgery, the tumour invaded the T6 vertebral body. The surgeon, faced with incomplete tumour resection or vertebr…
28y · Male·Mixed drug toxicity (synergistic effects of diazepam, oxycodone, and fentanyl ca…
Matthew McLachlan, a 28-year-old paraplegic with chronic pain from spinal cord injury, died from mixed drug toxicity while hospitalized for urinary tract infection treatment. He was receiving fentanyl patches, oxycodone,…
74y · Male·Pulmonary thromboembolism secondary to deep vein thrombosis in the setting of re…
A 74-year-old man died from pulmonary thromboembolism secondary to deep vein thrombosis following a cervical spinal fracture. He presented to rural ED with mental health concerns, was restrained by security guards after …
10y · Female·Septic shock and multiple organ failure as complications of advanced metastatic …
…ourt proceedings. After 6 weeks of untreated disease, Tamar deteriorated significantly with weight loss, paraplegia, and pleural effusion before hospitalisation in late October. While chemotherapy was commenced in El Sal…
38y · Female·peritonitis with septic shock secondary to perforation of the gastrointestinal t…
A 38-year-old woman in persistent vegetative state following anoxic encephalopathy from anaphylaxis during surgery died from peritonitis caused by perforation at the gastrostomy stoma site. The perforation likely occurre…
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