29y · Male·Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP)
Dean Broughton, a 29-year-old man with hyperekplexia and possible epilepsy living in an assisted living facility, was found deceased at home. Autopsy and review of medical…
Male·Multiple injuries from motor vehicle trauma (head-on collision with truck)
… Bruce Highway near Marlborough, Queensland on 27 December 2006. The truck driver, Donald MacFarlane, had epilepsy. The coroner found the collision was possibly caused by MacFarlane suffering a partial epileptic seizure,…
14y · Female·Drowning in a person with epilepsy
PCH, a 14-year-old girl in out-of-home care with a history of epilepsy, drowned in a river while washing her hair during a family camping trip. She had experienced increased se…
66y · Male·Undetermined - natural causes; likely sudden cardiac arrhythmia
Colin Toogood, a 66-year-old man with a long history of intellectual disability, epilepsy, brain injury, and remote stroke, died suddenly while using the toilet in residential care. He complained…
47y · Male·Multiple injuries due to or as a consequence of a motor vehicle accident
… in a head-on motor vehicle collision after driving at speed on the wrong side of a rural highway. He had epilepsy managed with sodium valproate but had experienced multiple seizures in the months before his death, inclu…
34y · Female·hypoxic brain damage complicating fresh water drowning
Alice Louise McTye, a 34-year-old woman with severe intellectual disability and epilepsy, died from hypoxic brain damage following fresh water drowning in a bath at a disability services residen…
10y · Male·Unascertained - sudden and unexpected death; evidence did not allow determinatio…
… despite extensive investigation. The coroner could not determine whether death resulted from undiagnosed epilepsy (SUDEP) or sudden cardiac death, as evidence was incomplete and inconclusive. The boy had episodes of tra…
57y · Male·Undetermined; possible sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) with competin…
… 24 November 2021. The cause of death could not be determined but was possibly sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP), with competing contributing factors including gastrointestinal haemorrhage, chronic pancreatitis…
31y · Male·haemorrhage due to incised wound to left arm with amphetamine toxicity as a poss…
A 31-year-old man with personality disorder, possible epilepsy, possible schizophrenia, and polysubstance abuse made a triple zero call suggesting self-harm. P…
35y · Female·Global cerebral ischaemic injury in the setting of post caecal resection for col…
Kerry Anne Golley, a 35-year-old woman with intellectual disability, autism, and epilepsy, presented with recurrent vomiting between December 2011 and February 2012, requiring multiple ED visits …
44y · Male·epilepsy with contributing factors of hypertensive heart disease and coronary ar…
A 44-year-old man with a history of epilepsy died from a seizure while detained in police custody under the Public Intoxication Act. He was intoxicate…
13y · Male·unascertained
Charles Tudawali, a 13-year-old Aboriginal boy with intellectual disability (mental age 7 years) and epilepsy requiring three-daily medication, went missing on 15 December 1976 while mustering horses in remote Kimbe…
39y · Male·most likely suicide; possibly accidental death from untreated epilepsy or natura…
Martin Page, a 39-year-old man with epilepsy, schizophrenia or Asperger's syndrome, severe obsessive-compulsive behaviours, and intellectual disabilit…
52y · Female·Aspiration pneumonia in a female who had undergone a laparoscopic cholecystectom…
Angela Murray, a 52-year-old woman with intellectual disability, cerebral palsy, and epilepsy, died from aspiration pneumonia following laparoscopic cholecystectomy for cholangitis and cholelithiasis…
39y · Male·COMPLICATIONS OF CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE
Drew Aaron Boaler, a 39-year-old man with severe intellectual disability, epilepsy, bipolar disorder, and chronic renal failure, died from complications of his renal disease while on an ou…
54y · Male·Cardiomyopathy (NOS)
Timothy Hacking, a 54-year-old man with intellectual disability, schizoaffective disorder, epilepsy and hypertension, died suddenly at his supported accommodation from cardiomyopathy. Autopsy revealed mode…
28y · Female·complications of epilepsy
Carney Schultz, a 28-year-old woman with severe cerebral palsy, hydrocephalus, and epilepsy, died on 21 April 2015 at a group home. She experienced a seizure around 3:20am managed by a disability s…
63y · Female·Aspiration of gastric contents and acute renal failure complicating intestinal p…
Pamela Bell, a 63-year-old woman with intellectual disability, epilepsy treated with carbamazepine, and chronic hyponatraemia, died from aspiration of gastric contents and acute…
30y · Male·Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy
Vanelee Mitchell, a 30-year-old First Nations man with epilepsy, died suddenly in custody at Townsville Correctional Centre on 10 April 2020. He had suffered a head inju…
47y · Male·ischaemic heart disease with seizure disorder and schizophrenia being other sign…
…se with significant coronary artery narrowing (60-80%) identified at autopsy. He had a 42-year history of epilepsy and schizophrenia with frequent medication non-compliance due to delusional beliefs that his anti-epilept…
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