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42 results for secondary brain haemorrhage

NThospital2024

Inquest into the death of Road Death 45 of 2024

51y · Male·Spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage

A 51-year-old Aboriginal man experienced a spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage while riding his motorcycle, causing him to crash. He was transported to Alice Springs Hospital where h…

neurosurgeryintensive care
VIChome2023-10-03

Finding into death of Wendy Joy Morgan

56y · Female·Complications arising from acute on chronic haemorrhage into suprachiasmal piloc…

Wendy Joy Morgan, aged 56, died from complications of acute on chronic haemorrhage into a suprachiasmal pilocytic astrocytoma. She had suffered an acquired brain injury in 2021 from hydr…

neurologyneurosurgerylevetiracetam
TAShospital2018-02-28

Coroner's Finding: Patmore, Jason

44y · Male·haemorrhagic stroke complicating anticoagulation and intravenous antibiotic ther…

…tic therapy given for a right upper arm deep vein thrombosis acquired during hospitalisation for traumatic brain injury. Mr Patmore sustained the traumatic brain injury in a bicycle crash on 29 July 2015 when riding at …

trauma surgeryneurosurgery
TAShome2022-06-28

Coroner's Finding: Mansell, Sean Erwin

57y · Male·Undetermined; possible sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) with competin…

…en unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP), with competing contributing factors including gastrointestinal haemorrhage, chronic pancreatitis, tuberculosis, and hepatitis C infection. Mr Mansell had a history of acquired br…

forensic medicineneurologysodium valproate
NThospital2005-04-06

Inquest into the death of Peter Wiryal

48y · Male·Cerebrovascular Accident (stroke) caused by subdural haemorrhage, which resulted…

… requiring emergency craniotomy on 9 April. He appeared to recover initially but suffered a catastrophic secondary haemorrhage on 24 April, dying on 26 April 2003. Clinical lessons: (1) The initial ED assessment and dis…

emergency medicineneurosurgerydiagnosticcommunicationalcohol
VIChospital2022-10-07

Finding into death of Mr B

57y · Male·Subarachnoid Haemorrhage Secondary to Ruptured Pericallosal Aneurysm

A 57-year-old man on remand at Port Phillip Prison collapsed on 4 August 2021 with a subarachnoid haemorrhage from a ruptured pericallosal aneurysm. He was transferred to St Vincent's Hospital, underwent emergency…

neurosurgeryintensive care
VIChospital2010-03-22

Finding into death of Magdalena Schauer

36y · Female·Acute brain injury due to intracerebral haemorrhage secondary to sepsis

…d empiric antibiotics for suspected meningococcal sepsis. Hospital investigation revealed intracerebral haemorrhages and blood cultures grew Staphylococcus aureus sepsis. She underwent neurosurgery for haemorrhage evacu…

emergency medicineintensive careheroin
VIChospital2012-07-03

Finding into death of Pruseyus Lily Sharp

0y · Female·Hypoxic brain injury secondary to pneumonia and pulmonary haemorrhage

Pruseyus Sharp was a 39-day-old neonate who died from hypoxic brain injury secondary to pneumonia and pulmonary haemorrhage caused by picornavirus infection. She presented wi…

paediatricsneonatologydelay
VIChospital2014-01-30

Finding into death of Kerri Louise Gunn

41y · Female·Intracerebral haemorrhage secondary to Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndr…

…lower limb oedema. She was admitted under general physician Dr S. after ED assessment by Dr McKenzie. A CT brain performed that evening was reported as normal. Despite clinical concern for cerebral venous thrombosis doc…

emergency medicinegeneral medicinediagnosticdelayparacetamol
SAhospital2022-12-22

Coroner's Finding: Shore Wayne John

55y · Male·right intracerebral haemorrhage and left middle cerebral artery cerebrovascular …

Wayne Shore, 55, died from right intracerebral haemorrhage and left middle cerebral artery stroke complicating infective endocarditis, end-stage renal failure, an…

neurologynephrologyanticoagulant therapy
SAhospital2025-05-20

Coroner's Finding: Lane, Kevin Roy

81y · Male·inanition complicating traumatic brain injury and disseminated malignancy

An 81-year-old man with metastatic bowel cancer suffered a traumatic brain injury from a fall, resulting in multiple intracerebral haemorrhages and cerebral contusions. He was delir…

neurosurgerygeneral medicine
QLDhospital2006-07-28

Zimitat, Vivian Bexley

68y · Male·pulmonary embolism secondary to immobilisation as a result of subdural haemorrha…

… change, but was not transferred due to claimed bed shortage (disputed). He died from pulmonary embolism secondary to immobilisation from the head injury. Expert evidence suggests transfer to neurosurgery would have bee…

neurosurgeryneurologycommunicationsystem
VIChospital2021-10-26

Finding into death of John Francis Flynn

69y · Male·Hypoxic ischaemic brain injury secondary to right facial artery pseudoaneurysm r…

…tion, failure to secure airway electively before catastrophic bleed, and suboptimal escalation. Massive haemorrhage occurred, requiring emergency cricothyrotomy and resuscitation. Subsequent hypoxic-ischaemic brain inju…

emergency medicineENT surgerydiagnosticcommunicationparacetamol/codeine
TAShome2022-05-18

Coroner's Finding: Masters, Shane Anthony

40y · Male·Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) resulting from post-traumatic brain …

…Masters died from Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) 12 years after sustaining a severe traumatic brain injury at work. On 19 May 2008, a hydraulic jack dislodged while repairing a fully loaded truck in a works…

neurosurgeryrehabilitation medicinesystemprocedural
VIChospital2019-10-02

Finding into death of David Sheppard

76y · Male·Intracranial Haemorrhage Secondary to Blunt Head Trauma (Fall) in the Setting of…

…topenia from chemotherapy. He suffered multiple falls while confused from sepsis, sustaining a subdural haemorrhage that progressed despite maximal medical therapy. The coroner found no clinical mismanagement caused or …

haematologyinfectious diseasessystemdocumentationhydroxyurea
TAS2021-02-05

Coroner's Finding: Greene, Yvonne Beverley

73y · Female·head injuries suffered in a fall; skull fractures with bruising to the brain and…

…ximately three of ten stairs, landing head-first and sustaining fatal skull fractures with subarachnoid haemorrhage. Pacemaker data showed brief ventricular tachycardia and asystole occurring as a consequence of the fal…

cardiologygeneral practice
VIChospital2025-10-10

Finding into death of Jeffrey George Nirens

70y · Male·intracranial haemorrhage secondary to haemorrhagic transformation of ischaemic s…

A 70-year-old man with chronic small vessel cerebral ischaemia died from intracranial haemorrhage following haemorrhagic transformation of an ischaemic stroke while in prison custody. He presented with…

neurologyemergency medicinemedicationsystemenoxaparin
NSWhospital2017-04-19

Inquest into the death of Heidi COX

58y · Female·consequences of acute subdural haemorrhage

Heidi Cox, 58, died from acute subdural haemorrhage after suffering interpersonal violence, likely at the hands of her long-term partner Karl Bingle. She w…

emergency medicineintensive carequetiapine
QLDhospital2021-07-26

Saunders, Cary James

57y · Male·Intracerebral haemorrhage due to ruptured mycotic aneurysm due to infective endo…

…7, a prisoner with pre-existing mitral valve prolapse and aortic regurgitation, died from intracerebral haemorrhage secondary to infective endocarditis caused by Streptococcus mitis. He presented with non-specific sympt…

cardiologyinfectious diseasesampicillin
VIChospital2015-04-02

Finding into death of Linda Elizabeth Parker

39y · Female·Hypoxic brain injury secondary to multiple hypovolaemic cardiac arrests from cat…

Linda Parker, aged 39, died from hypoxic brain injury following catastrophic postpartum haemorrhage from placenta increta during caesarean delivery. Crit…

obstetricsanaesthesiadiagnosticdelay

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