8 results for “total knee replacement surgery”
83y · Male·aspiration pneumonia and delirium complicating surgery for left total knee repla…
An 83-year-old man with dementia and ischaemic heart disease underwent elective left total knee replacement under spinal anaesthesia to avoid general anaesthesia, as advised by geriatrician. Despit…
63y · Female·Pulmonary thromboembolism
A 63-year-old woman died from pulmonary thromboembolism within 24 hours of bilateral total knee arthroplasty despite aspirin and sequential compression devices. The surgeon assessed her as standard…
68y · Female·mixed prescription drug toxicity (oxycodone, metoprolol, diazepam)
…rescription drug toxicity (oxycodone, metoprolol, diazepam) following suicide. She had been awaiting right total knee replacement since 2017, which was cancelled three times: due to atrial fibrillation, infection, and f…
75y · Male·multifactorial causes on a background of ischaemic heart disease, generalised va…
…cluding coronary artery disease, chronic kidney disease, and diabetes, died five days after elective right total knee replacement surgery. The coroner found that surgery should have been delayed due to markedly elevated…
85y · Female·Multisystem failure complicating ischaemic heart disease and ischaemic bowel in …
Lydia Maxfield, 85, died 5 days after elective left total knee replacement at a private hospital from multisystem failure due to ischaemic heart disease and ischaem…
54y · Male·Bowel ischaemia resulting from acute thrombosis of superior mesenteric artery an…
…mbosis of his superior mesenteric artery and coeliac artery stents post-operatively. He had undergone left total knee replacement surgery at Fairfield Hospital on 28 September 2018. A vascular surgeon consultation had b…
51y · Male·pulmonary thromboembolus secondary to left deep vein thrombosis
… (BMI 31.5), died of pulmonary thromboembolism and left deep vein thrombosis six days after undergoing left knee arthroscopy. Critical clinical lessons: (1) VTE risk assessment forms were not completed on admission despi…
73y · Male·Acute intracranial haemorrhage, due to or as a consequence of coagulopathy, due …
…on of anticoagulants (Clexane and Xarelto). He developed bilateral pulmonary emboli post-operatively after total knee replacement and was appropriately commenced on therapeutic anticoagulation with Clexane. When transit…
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