75y · Male·Right haemothorax complicating intercostal catheter insertion for the treatment …
Giuseppe Costa, 75, died from right haemothorax following intercostal catheter insertion for pleural effusion drainage. Critical failures in clinical management included: inadequate documentation of pleural…
77y · Male·complications of haemothorax and hypotension following drainage of pleural effus…
77-year-old male died from complications of haemothorax and hypotension following drainage of pleural effusion post-coronary bypass surgery, in the setting of pre-existing renal impairment and dia…
40y · Male·Complications of Influenza A infection in a man with cerebral palsy and congenit…
…lower respiratory tract infection and parapneumonic effusion. Despite antiviral and antibiotic treatment, pleural drainage, and intra-pleural enzyme therapy, he deteriorated and transitioned to palliative care. The coro…
75y · Male·Carcinomatosis due to carcinoma of the left lung (metastatic adenocarcinoma)
…asthma history. Although examined and monitored appropriately on each occasion, advanced lung cancer with pleural effusion was not diagnosed until 8 November 2010 when he was hospitalised. By diagnosis, disease was incu…
45y · Male·complications associated with metastatic adenocarcinoma of the lung, treated pal…
… on 31 December 2020 and underwent five hospital admissions over three months for management of recurrent pleural and pericardial effusions requiring drainage procedures. The coroner found the lung cancer presented at a…
77y · Male·cardiac failure in an elderly man with valvular heart disease and other co-morbi…
Brian Attwell, a 77-year-old sentenced prisoner with multiple chronic conditions including diabetes, chronic renal failure, peripheral vascular disease, and valvular heart disease, died of cardiac failure in hospital. He…
56y · Female·Aspiration Pneumonia in the setting of Cerebral Palsy and Epilepsy
Lesley Fallon, a 56-year-old woman with cerebral palsy and epilepsy living in high-level residential care, presented with sepsis complicated by pneumonia, cholecystitis, and aspiration risk. Despite aggressive treatment …
64y · Male·bronchopneumonia and sepsis with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in a man …
Edward Ivan Africh, a 64-year-old sentenced prisoner, died from bronchopneumonia and sepsis with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (emphysema) in the setting of advanced chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia and heart fai…
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