64y · Male·Small bowel infarction due to a volvulus owing to adhesions in the small intesti…
…tal's Emergency Department in October 2012 with severe central abdominal pain. The ED consultant diagnosed bowel obstruction but failed to consider critical complications such as strangulation, perforation, and peritoni…
1y · Female·infarction and volvulus of the small intestine due to adhesion from prior nephre…
…wed. The child was initially treated in the waiting area without documented observations for over 5 hours. Small bowel obstruction was suspected at 4:45am but imaging was delayed and initially appeared normal. Critical …
56y · Male·Complications of a small bowel obstruction
…ng after returning from day service. He was initially diagnosed with aspiration pneumonia and myocardial infarction, but subsequently deteriorated with tachypnoea and tachycardia. Post-mortem imaging revealed a small bow…
34y · Male·sepsis due to extensive small bowel infarct caused by bowel incarceration within…
Jason Keith Harrison, aged 34, died from sepsis due to extensive small bowel infarction caused by bowel incarceration within a congenital mesenteric hernia. He presented to West…
53y · Female·infarction of the transverse colon due to mesenteric/retroperitoneal haemorrhage…
A 53-year-old woman with schizophrenia died from transverse colon infarction secondary to mesenteric/retroperitoneal haemorrhage and incisional abdominal hernia during anticoagulati…
49y · Female·Widespread small and large bowel, splenic and hepatic infarction secondary to se…
Susan Bourke, a 49-year-old woman, died from widespread small and large bowel infarction secondary to severe aortic atherosclerosis causing critical stenosis of the sup…
76y · Male·Extensive small bowel infarction caused by superior mesenteric artery thrombus
A 76-year-old man presented to ED with sudden onset left-sided abdominal pain, vomiting and bowel incontinence. Initial CT imaging was reassuring. However, mesenteric ischaemia—characterised by severe pai…
43y · Male·ischaemic small intestine due to incarceration of bowel in a mesenteric defect
…ment-resistant schizophrenia detained at Glenside Hospital under mental health orders, died from ischaemic small intestine due to bowel incarceration in a congenital mesenteric defect. He presented with abdominal pain o…
53y · Female·sepsis and multiple organ failure attributable to infarction/necrosis of small b…
…ng surgery locally. Surgery began at 7:06 PM on 20 August (40 hours after onset). Despite thrombectomy and bowel resection, the patient developed extensive small bowel necrosis and died on 27 August from sepsis and mult…
27y · Male·multiple organ failure due to the consequences of multiple gunshot wounds to the…
…t 2008 when he presented with vomiting and abdominal pain, which led to emergency surgery revealing a rare small bowel volvulus requiring total bowel resection. Expert evidence established that this volvulus was excepti…
75y · Female·Abdominal infection following surgery (repair of recurrent umbilical hernia) - s…
…minal infection and sepsis following uncomplicated umbilical hernia repair. Post-mortem revealed ischaemic bowel with infarction, likely caused by superior mesenteric artery occlusion triggered by the operative procedur…
56y · Female·Multiple injuries including small and large bowel damage, mesenteric damage with…
…e that had been applied during roadworks earlier that day. The vehicle collided with a tree. She sustained bowel and mesenteric injuries, lung contusions, and internal bleeding. Despite emergency surgery at Bunbury Regi…
52y · Male·Left upper lobe collapse/bronchopneumonia and haemorrhagic pleural effusion seco…
Yong Lam Chai, a Malaysian national serving a life sentence for drug importation, died from advanced metastatic lung cancer with pleural effusion at Royal Darwin Hospital in July 2011. The coroner found that care provide…
90y · Female·abdominal sepsis complicating perforated diverticular abscess of the sigmoid col…
…al Victoria, died from abdominal sepsis complicating a perforated diverticular abscess. She presented with bowel obstruction requiring laparotomy on 21 October 2019, was discharged on 30 October appearing recovered, the…
68y · Male·infarction of the small and large bowel due to superior mesenteric artery thromb…
…a. By the time mesenteric ischaemia was suspected the following morning and imaging arranged, irreversible bowel necrosis had occurred. The coroner found that earlier recognition of mesenteric ischaemia as a differentia…
68y · Male·Ischaemic small and large intestine complicating cardiogenic shock in the settin…
Ignac Lecek, 68, with hypertension and gout, collapsed in custody and died of ischaemic bowel complicated by cardiogenic shock in the setting of ischaemic heart disease. He complained of feeling ill o…
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