31 results for “undiagnosed diabetes”
58y · Male·ischaemic heart disease
…ease while evading lawful apprehension during an immigration operation in rural South Australia. He had undiagnosed underlying cardiac disease with cardiomegaly, myocardial fibrosis, and significant left coronary artery…
75y · Female·Infective complications of a left hand injury with diabetic ketoacidosis
…e complications of a left hand wound sustained in a fall from a ladder in November 2023, complicated by undiagnosed diabetic ketoacidosis. Despite family encouragement to seek medical attention, she declined treatment, …
62y · Male·Diabetic ketoacidosis in a man with coronary atherosclerosis and cardiomegaly
… frequency, nocturia, blurred vision, dizziness and vomiting. The GP diagnosed hypertension and suspected diabetes mellitus, ordering blood tests for the following day. No point-of-care glucose testing was performed desp…
50y · Male·Coronary atherosclerosis
…sport to the medical centre where CPR and defibrillation were administered. Autopsy revealed previously undiagnosed severe coronary atherosclerosis (80% stenosis), chronic hepatitis, diabetes, and hypertension. The coro…
17y · Male·Diabetic ketoacidosis
Caleb Pearson, a 17-year-old with undiagnosed Type 1 diabetes, presented with pharyngitis and was diagnosed and treated for a throat infection by his…
38y · Male·Combined effects of coronary atherosclerosis and cardiomegaly, with methylamphet…
…t increased his arrhythmia risk. No police physical contact caused his death. Clinical lessons include: undiagnosed advanced coronary artery disease can present first as sudden cardiac death; stimulant drugs significant…
34y · Male·cardiomegaly with contributing aspiration
A 34-year-old man with paranoid schizophrenia, morbid obesity, type 1 diabetes, and undiagnosed sleep apnoea died from cardiomegaly with contributing aspiration while detained under th…
17y · Female·Multi System Failure following acute onset (Acute Diabetic Ketoacidosis) Diabete…
Lee Rebecca Halford, a 17-year-old girl, died of acute diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) following undiagnosed Type 1 diabetes. She initially presented to a GP with vomiting on 27 February 2007, diagnosed with gast…
70y · Male·aspiration pneumonia due to seizures
70-year-old man with insulin-dependent diabetes, cognitive impairment, depression, alcohol abuse history, and seizure disorder died from aspiration pneum…
72y · Male·acute gangrene of colon with probable perforation along with bowel obstruction a…
Giovanni Bertoncini, a 72-year-old man with diabetes and cardiac disease, presented to Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital on Christmas Day 2002 with acute abdomina…
45y · Male·Coronary artery disease due to severe atherosclerosis; acute myocardial infarcti…
…medical assessments in 2004. He had uncontrolled risk factors including smoking, poorly controlled Type 2 diabetes, and hypercholesterolaemia. The coroner found no failure of duty of care, as staff could not reasonably i…
34y · Male·Acute intracranial haemorrhage, malignant hypertension, renal artery stenosis
…tension on 13 June, was transferred to hospital, diagnosed with bilateral renal artery stenosis and two undiagnosed brain lesions, then returned to prison on 16 June. His anticoagulation management was complex; warfarin…
81y · Male·aspiration of gastric contents complicating disseminated moderately differentiat…
Graham Joseph Butson, aged 81, died from aspiration of gastric contents complicating undiagnosed metastatic lung cancer with brain metastases. He presented with confusion, agitation and atrial fibrill…
Female·Stacey Meas: severe closed head injury from motor vehicle collision. Courtney Me…
…o deaths resulted from a motor vehicle collision caused by a driver with poorly managed insulin-dependent diabetes. Stacey Meas, a pregnant woman, died from head injuries sustained when the driver's car struck hers at a …
85y · Male·Liver ischaemia and portal vein thrombosis complicating emergency cholecystectom…
…neth James Anderson, an 85-year-old man with intellectual disability and multiple comorbidities including diabetes, pancreatitis, and gallstones, died following emergency cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis with Miri…
77y · Male·bilateral pulmonary emboli complicating deep vein thrombosis (left calf)
…monary emboli complicating deep vein thrombosis of the left calf. He was hospitalised for dehydration and diabetes management, then returned to psychiatric care. On 30 April, his daughter observed classic DVT signs (unil…
34y · Male·ischaemic heart disease secondary to coronary atherosclerosis as an antecedent c…
…as commenced with only 1 day on Suboxone (guidelines suggest 7 days minimum), given his morbid obesity, undiagnosed sleep apnoea, and low oxygen saturation (94%). The coroner found systemic resourcing failures at Junee …
73y · Female·general inanition due to dysphagia on a background of multiple neurological and …
A 73-year-old woman with bipolar disorder, alcohol abuse history, and multiple medical comorbidities presented with stroke-like symptoms in March 2012. Neuroimaging was unrevealing. She was detained under the Mental Heal…
75y · Female·Haemopericardium due to dissection of the ascending aorta
…ng to the jaw, which the GP attributed to possible acute myocardial infarction based on her risk factors (diabetes, hypertension, smoking history). An ECG was performed and considered unchanged. No further investigations…
40y · Male·Cardiomyopathy with early pneumonia in a man with reported sleep apnoea and high…
…respiratory arrest between 6.30am and 7.10am on 21 November and could not be revived. Clinical lessons: undiagnosed cardiac disease and untreated sleep apnoea in patients requiring sedation pose serious risks; visual re…
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