47 results for “severe constipation”
38y · Male·multi organ failure secondary to intestinal ischaemia from toxic megacolon relat…
…hizophrenia died from multi-organ failure secondary to intestinal ischaemia caused by toxic megacolon from severe constipation. He was a detained patient on Clozapine and Oxybutamin, both known to cause constipation. On …
68y · Male·Stercoral perforation in a man with cerebral palsy
John Robert Clay, a 68-year-old man with cerebral palsy, died from stercoral perforation following severe constipation and faecal impaction. He had multiple complex disabilities including quadriplegia, dysphagia,…
32y · Female·Perforation of the bowel in the context of constipation and intellectual disabil…
…n with intellectual disability and Opitz Trigonocephaly Syndrome, died from bowel perforation secondary to severe constipation and pica (compulsive ingestion of non-food items). She presented with abdominal obstruction, …
46y · Male·Complications of stage 4 colorectal cancer in a man with multiple medical comorb…
Timothy Norton, a 46-year-old man with severe intellectual disability, cerebral palsy, epilepsy and chronic constipation, died from complications of sta…
70y · Female·Perforated diverticulitis
…-old woman with NDIS support living in a Specialist Disability Accommodation presented to hospital with constipation, nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. After initial ED assessment and discharge with constipation manag…
10y · Female·Ischaemic large bowel; large bowel obstruction secondary to chronic constipation
Child W, aged 10, died from ischaemic large bowel secondary to chronic constipation and faecal impaction. She had lifelong constipation and encopresis (soiling) from infancy, presenting t…
69y · Female·Aspiration pneumonia in a woman with intellectual disability
…tual disability living in a disability group home, died from aspiration pneumonia after presenting with constipation. She was seen by her GP on 24 July 2017 who examined her, recognised constipation as her presenting pro…
44y · Male·aspiration and intellectual disability
Andrew Wilson, a 44-year-old man with intellectual disability, epilepsy, asthma, and severe scoliosis, died from aspiration in a community residential unit. He had been prescribed a laxative and ene…
47y · Male·Multi organ failure and sepsis complicating ulcerating colitis and intestinal ob…
…but developed post-operative complications including pulmonary embolism, pneumonia, bowel obstruction, and severe constipation. He was readmitted to hospital eight hours after discharge following a second fall at the toi…
26y · Female·Hypoxic brain injury in the setting of immersion
…a psychiatric ward with acute psychosis due to non-compliance with clozapine. Over two days, she developed severe abdominal pain and constipation unresponsive to medical management. Nursing staff offered her a bath to re…
59y · Male·Massive aspiration in the setting of intubation following complications of sever…
… treatment-resistant schizophrenia on long-term clozapine therapy died from massive aspiration following a severe ileus of unknown aetiology. He had documented constipation managed with laxatives, then developed progress…
45y · Male·Acute renal failure in the setting of urosepsis and San Filippo Syndrome
…antibiotics in the community, but developed progressive lethargy, reduced urinary output, vomiting, and constipation. Despite outpatient management and investigation including abdominal imaging, clinical deterioration co…
41y · Male·Cerebral hypoxia and bronchopneumonia; contributing factors: toxic megacolon, ce…
David Orton, a 41-year-old man with cerebral palsy, intellectual disability, and severe kyphoscoliosis, died from cerebral hypoxia and bronchopneumonia complicated by toxic megacolon and Salmone…
89y · Male·combination of biochemical consequences of colonic pseudo-obstruction and faecal…
…or adequately assess his abdomen after 4 March 2022. He was on opioid analgesia and medications causing constipation, but laxative regimens were inadequate. When he deteriorated acutely with bowel obstruction symptoms, C…
45y · Female·aspiration of vomitus with bowel obstruction due to faecal impaction
…n 13 May 2007 at Albany Regional Hospital from aspiration of vomitus secondary to bowel obstruction due to severe faecal impaction. She had been admitted as an involuntary patient on 2 May 2007. The coroner found the dea…
Male·Faecal peritonitis due to perforated diverticulum
Michael Sutherland presented to Bega Hospital Emergency Department on 2 March 2006 with severe abdominal pain from diverticulitis with bowel perforation. Dr B., the attending Career Medical Officer, fo…
83y · Female·cardiac arrest from severe triple vessel coronary artery disease complicated by …
Margaret Isabel Horsington, aged 83, died from cardiac arrest secondary to severe coronary artery disease, complicated by large bowel obstruction from rectal carcinoma. She presented to Ro…
39y · Male·Complications of large bowel pseudo-obstruction
…he coroner found his medical care reasonable and appropriate. Clinical lessons include recognition that constipation can be a serious complication in patients on multiple antipsychotics, particularly those with cirrhosis…
31y · Male·Acute colonic pseudo-obstruction; death certificate amended to 'unascertained' -…
…sues, died from acute colonic pseudo-obstruction with underlying malnourishment. Key clinical lessons: (1) severe malnutrition secondary to chronically poor diet was not adequately managed despite multiple hospital admis…
37y · Male·hypoxic brain injury secondary to cardiac arrest as a result of bowel volvulus
… dilated abdomen via colonoscopy at hospital temporarily restored ventilation, but he had already suffered severe neurological injury from hypoxia. The coroner found no evidence linking his prescribed Caltrate supplement…
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