312 results for “severe brain injury”
16y · Male·severe traumatic brain injury
A 16-year-old male died from severe traumatic brain injury sustained when struck by a motor vehicle while riding an unlit, unmaintained scoote…
3y · Male·Complications of severe ischaemic/hypoxic brain injury
A 3-year-old boy with severe hypoxic-ischaemic brain injury from non-accidental trauma sustained at 2 months of age died from complicat…
51y · Male·Aspiration pneumonia secondary to traumatic brain injury arising from a scooter …
A 51-year-old man suffered a severe traumatic brain injury in an electric scooter crash on 14 March 2022 and died from aspiration pneumonia on…
23y · Male·complications of blunt force head injuries
…John Stacey, causing him to fall and strike his head on a concrete kerb. He suffered a fractured skull and severe brain injury requiring a tracheostomy tube for respiratory support. Despite numerous life-saving medical i…
34y · Female·Aspiration pneumonia due to traumatic brain injury
Kirsten McDougall, aged 34, died on 20 July 2015 from aspiration pneumonia, 16 months after suffering severe traumatic brain injury in a single-vehicle motor crash on 7 February 2014 on the Midland Highway in Tasman…
18y · Male·Severe traumatic brain injury sustained in motor vehicle collision due to driver…
An 18-year-old male died from severe traumatic brain injury sustained in a motor vehicle collision on 25 December 2018. He was a front-seat pas…
33y · Female·Respiratory sepsis in a woman with an acquired brain injury
Melanie Ranken, a 33-year-old woman with acquired brain injury from a 2017 motor vehicle accident and post-traumatic epilepsy, died from respiratory sepsis second…
58y · Female·pneumonia and cardiac failure complicated by hypoxic brain injury
A 58-year-old woman with autism and severe intellectual disability died from pneumonia and cardiac failure complicated by hypoxic brain injury follow…
30y · Male·Head injury; severe traumatic brain injury with global cerebral ischaemic injury…
Leigh Joseph Riley, a 30-year-old man with intellectual disability and substance abuse history, died from severe head injury following a physical altercation. He was punched in the face by an associate during an argumen…
40y · Male·Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) resulting from post-traumatic brain …
Shane 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 …
20y · Male·Closed head injury
Jason Troy Barber, aged 20, died from severe closed head injuries sustained in a motor vehicle collision on 3 October 2000. He had been driving a stole…
36y · Male·hypoxic brain injury and myocardial ischaemia following cardiac arrest during re…
…following a property damage incident. He experienced cardiac arrest during restraint and died from hypoxic brain injury and myocardial ischaemia. Autopsy revealed severe coronary atherosclerosis and acute myocardial inf…
53y · Male·Gastrointestinal haemorrhage complicating recent PEG insertion with stroke as a …
Tan Van Tran, a 53-year-old man with prior stroke causing severe dysphagia, died from gastrointestinal haemorrhage complicating recent PEG insertion. He was admitted with …
29y · Female·Bronchopneumonia in a woman with brain injury
A 29-year-old Aboriginal woman suffered a motor vehicle collision resulting in severe multi-system injuries requiring multiple surgical interventions. Eleven days after transfer to the trauma …
45y · Female·Epilepsy
…ective CPR and intensive care management including intubation and anti-seizure medication loading, she had severe hypoxic brain injury and limited neurological recovery. Blood levels of sodium valproate and phenytoin wer…
28y · Male·Multiple injuries following a motor vehicle crash while concurrently suffering f…
A 28-year-old Aboriginal man died from severe traumatic brain injury following a high-speed motor vehicle crash. He was unlicensed, driving another's ve…
29y · Male·Head injury following an assault; subdural haemorrhage, cerebral contusions and …
Michael David Williams, aged 29, died from head injury sustained in an unlawful assault at Stainforth Court on 18 February 2011. After spending time drinking wit…
0y · Female·Global hypoxic-ischaemic injury of unknown cause
A three-day-old girl, Baby Kirat, died from global hypoxic-ischaemic brain injury sustained during co-sleeping with her mother in a hospital maternity ward on 9 July 2013. She was r…
59y · Female·Diffuse hypoxic brain injury complicating aspiration of gastric contents during …
Janine Hunn, a 59-year-old woman with Angelman syndrome, severe intellectual disability, kyphoscoliosis, and a history of epilepsy and recurrent aspiration pneumonia, die…
42y · Male·Coronary artery atheroma with arrhythmia
A 42-year-old Indigenous man with acquired brain injury and epilepsy died suddenly in custody from coronary artery atherosclerosis causing arrhythmia. He e…
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