72y · Male·Aspiration pneumonia and small bowel obstruction secondary to metastatic bowel c…
Patrick Barry, a 72-year-old man with intellectual disability, severe dysphagia, and metastatic bowel cancer, died from aspiration pneumonia and small bowel obstruction. He had recurrent respiratory tract inf…
56y · Male·Complications of a small bowel obstruction
… infarction, but subsequently deteriorated with tachypnoea and tachycardia. Post-mortem imaging revealed a small bowel obstruction with air-fluid levels but no identifiable cause (likely adhesions). The clinical lesson …
74y · Male·Small bowel obstruction due to extensive intra-abdominal adhesions
Timothy Funder, a 74-year-old man with schizophrenia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and previous small bowel obstruction, died from small bowel obstruction due to extensive intra-abdominal adhesions. He presen…
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…
66y · Male·Aspiration pneumonia in the setting of a small bowel obstruction
…ual disability, autism, epilepsy, and swallowing difficulties, died from aspiration pneumonia complicating small bowel obstruction. He presented with vomiting and abdominal distention on 8 May 2023. At hospital, he deve…
79y · Male·Aspiration pneumonia in the setting of small bowel obstruction
…nted with vomiting on 9 June 2016. His GP was initially not concerned, but after a third vomiting episode, small bowel obstruction was suspected and he was transported to hospital. CT confirmed obstruction; he was deeme…
57y · Male·Small bowel obstruction due to mid small bowel volvulus
…g amoxicillin. The following morning he was found non-responsive and deceased. Autopsy revealed death from small bowel obstruction due to mid-bowel volvulus. The case highlights the challenge of recognising subtle prese…
64y · Male·Foreign body associated small bowel obstruction
…old man with moderate intellectual disability and autism living in a community residential unit, died from small bowel obstruction caused by a 45mm quartz-like stone he had ingested. Despite a known history of habitual …
56y · Female·Small bowel obstruction and aspiration pneumonitis in the setting of motor neuro…
Ms Ngatokoa, a 56-year-old NDIS participant with motor neurone disease, died from small bowel obstruction and aspiration pneumonitis at Dandenong Hospital. She had been receiving 24-hour care in…
51y · Male·Complications of Recurrent Small Bowel Obstruction (palliated)
…ith Down syndrome and chronic liver disease secondary to Hepatitis B, died from complications of recurrent small bowel obstruction. He had undergone emergency surgery in June 2018 for a perforated bowel with foreign bod…
57y · Male·aspiration pneumonia secondary to small bowel obstruction
A 57-year-old man with chronic schizophrenia, intellectual disability, and history of bowel obstruction presented with faecal vomiting and signs of shock. He was appropriately transferred to hospita…
38y · Male·abdominal and chest sepsis complicating iatrogenic left pneumothorax and laparot…
… disability, and scoliosis died from sepsis following iatrogenic pneumothorax and emergency laparotomy for small bowel obstruction. He was admitted with faecal loading and proctitis, deteriorated with small bowel obstru…
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 …
72y · Male·Complications of small bowel obstruction in a man with multiple medical co-morbi…
… presented to Austin Hospital with nausea, vomiting and decreased appetite. CT imaging revealed high-grade small bowel obstruction, large paraoesophageal hiatus hernia, and marked rectal faecal loading. Clinicians ident…
58y · Male·Aspiration pneumonia complicating small bowel obstruction in the setting of rece…
A 58-year-old man died from aspiration pneumonia complicating small bowel obstruction six days after elective laparoscopic subtotal colectomy for colorectal cancer. On post-o…
42y · Male·Aspiration pneumonia complicating small bowel ileus in a man with cerebral palsy
…ented to hospital with vomiting, abdominal distension and pain on 21 October 2019. Investigations revealed small bowel obstruction (ileus). Despite admission under General Medicine, his condition deteriorated rapidly, d…
30y · Female·Aspiration pneumonia in the setting of small bowel obstruction and Rett Syndrome
Ms Giulia Nesci, aged 30 with Rett Syndrome, died from aspiration pneumonia complicated by small bowel obstruction after admission to Monash Medical Centre on 7 July 2023. She had recently transitioned f…
59y · Male·Aspiration pneumonia secondary to recurrent anal squamous cell carcinoma with su…
…Dandenong Hospital with vomiting, lethargy and suspected urinary tract infection, aspiration pneumonia and small bowel obstruction. After initial ICU admission and improvement, he was transferred to Peter MacCallum Canc…
84y · Male·Chronic small bowel obstruction
Lester Gilmore Shelton, aged 84, died of chronic small bowel obstruction on 4 October 2022 whilst in custody at Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH), where he had b…
58y · Female·Ischaemic small bowel due to bowel obstruction most likely due to a combination …
Mrs Fulham, aged 58, died from ischaemic small bowel due to obstruction from adhesions and Crohn's disease recurrence. On 22 November, she presented to G…
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