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188 results for urinary tract infection

VIChospital2025-08-20

Finding into death of Arnold Polis

68y · Male·Community acquired chest infection secondary to C6 quadriplegia secondary to rem…

…, a 68-year-old man with C6 quadriplegia from a 1972 diving accident, died from community-acquired chest infection complicated by heart failure. He had recurrent respiratory and urinary tract infections related to his s…

general medicinepalliative care
SAaged care2017-05-30

Coroner's Finding: FORGIONE Maria Eufemia

89y · Female·multi-organ failure on a background of urinary sepsis

Maria Eufemia Forgione, aged 89, died of multi-organ failure secondary to urinary sepsis at a nursing home. She had longstanding paranoid schizophrenia and was subject to a guardianship o…

geriatric medicinepsychiatryantibiotics
VIChospital2024-12-13

Finding into death of Kerryn Swift

63y · Female·Community acquired pneumonia with urinary tract infection as a significant contr…

…ple sclerosis residing in specialist disability accommodation died from community-acquired pneumonia with urinary tract infection as a contributing factor. She presented with chest infection symptoms on 20 April 2023, w…

general practiceemergency medicineantibiotics
SAhospital2017-11-15

Coroner's Finding: BROADWAY Rita Ann

66y · Female·urinary tract infection with contributing hypertensive heart disease, diabetes m…

Rita Ann Broadway, 66, died from urinary tract infection on 2 January 2015, one day after presenting to Modbury Hospital Emergency Department with…

emergency medicineinfectious diseasesdiagnosticcommunicationparacetamol/codeine
SAhospital2007-04-12

Coroner's Finding: McINERNEY Harold Leslie

84y · Male·lower respiratory tract infection complicating congestive cardiac failure

Harold Leslie McInerney, 84, died from lower respiratory tract infection complicating congestive cardiac failure while detained under the Mental Health Act at Queen Eliz…

general medicinepsychiatryhaloperidol
VIChospital2016-03-15

Finding into death of George Mavraganis

50y · Male·Complications of urosepsis in the setting of T3/4 paraplegia

… paraplegia from a childhood injury, was residing in supported accommodation. He had a chronic indwelling urinary catheter with recurrent infections. On 24 August 2015, his long-term GP prescribed antibiotics for a urin…

intensive caregeneral practice
VICaged care2010-09-08

Finding into death of Nina Solyk

87y · Female·Sepsis

… under mental health legislation following behavioural deterioration. On 11 March, she was diagnosed with urinary tract infection and probable chest infection and commenced on antibiotics. Her condition did not improve,…

geriatric medicineinfectious diseases
VIC2014-10-14

Finding into death of William Morrison Nunan

78y · Male·urinary tract infection in a man with dementia and epilepsy

William Morrison Nunan, a 78-year-old man with intellectual disability, dementia, epilepsy, and chronic urinary tract infections managed with a suprapubic catheter, died of urosepsis at a hospice after admission for e…

palliative caregeneral practiceclonazepam
VIChospital2012-08-15

Finding into death of Vanessa Jenner

38y · Female·Septicaemia, urosepsis, and Lennox Gastaut syndrome

… disability, cerebral palsy, and Lennox-Gastaut epilepsy, died from septicaemia and urosepsis following a urinary tract infection. She presented with bruising to her thigh on 6 February 2011, but was not admitted initia…

intensive caregeneral medicine
VIChospital2018-02-12

Finding into death of Sandra Mary Carroll

69y · Female·Findings consistent with pneumonia/sepsis

…ll, 69 years old, died from pneumonia/sepsis on 8 November 2016 at Northeast Health Wangaratta. She had contracted a urinary tract infection in October 2016 and presented to hospital on 31 October 2016 with cough and fe…

general practiceemergency medicinemorphine
NSWhospital2018-07-18

Inquest into the death of Neville Betteridge

72y · Male·Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm

…wing a fall in prison with symptoms of light-headedness and tunnel vision. Clinical assessment identified urinary tract infection, chest infection, and cardiac concerns. He deteriorated rapidly, was transferred to ICU, …

emergency medicinegeriatric medicine
VIChospital2015-06-22

Finding into death of Stephen Robert Blom

45y · Male·Acute renal failure in the setting of urosepsis and San Filippo Syndrome

… in a community residential unit, died from acute renal failure secondary to urosepsis. He presented with urinary tract infection symptoms on 5 May 2014, was treated with antibiotics in the community, but developed prog…

general practiceemergency medicineantibiotics
VIChospital2024-08-02

Finding into death of Kevin Arthur Stanton

76y · Male·Urosepsis in a man with spastic quadriplegia, cerebral palsy, epilepsy and chron…

… admission is stated as 14 May 2024) with poor oral intake and severe hyponatraemia presumed secondary to urinary tract infection. He received intravenous antibiotics and fluids, but his condition deteriorated. The coro…

general medicineemergency medicine
VIChospital2021-12-10

Finding into death of Ronald Jelbert

90y · Male·Sepsis in the setting of cachexia in a man with multiple comorbidities

… a disability group home, was admitted to hospital on 21 December 2019 with sepsis suspected secondary to urinary tract infection, colonic pathology, and subsequently diagnosed advanced prostate cancer. He was severely …

emergency medicinegeneral medicine
SAhospital2010-06-04

Coroner's Finding: PRIDE Wilfred Thomas

93y · Male·ischaemic heart disease

… heart disease while detained under the Mental Health Act. He presented with delirium likely secondary to urinary tract infection from an indwelling catheter. Despite aggressive behaviour and refusal of care, Mental Hea…

cardiologypsychiatryheparin
VIChospital2015

Finding into death of Patricia O'Keefe

62y · Female·Pneumonia in a lady with spastic quadriplegia

…d spastic quadriplegia, died from pneumonia at Werribee Mercy Hospital. She developed an upper respiratory tract infection in mid-July 2014, attended medical appointments on 16, 25, and 31 July where antibiotics were pr…

general practicerespiratory medicineantibiotics
SAaged care2016-08-01

Coroner's Finding: BOEHM Valma Mona

92y · Female·bilateral pulmonary thromboembolism with contributing right temple lobe haemorrh…

…ascular amyloidosis at an aged care facility. She had been admitted following acute delirium secondary to urinary tract infection on a background of dementia, treated at hospital then discharged to residential care. The…

geriatric medicineemergency medicine
SAhospital2019-10-29

Coroner's Finding: PEMBERTON Graham Ashton

87y · Male·aspiration pneumonia, urinary tract infection and general inanition complicating…

Graham Pemberton, 87 years old with advanced Alzheimer's dementia, died of aspiration pneumonia, urinary tract infection, and general inanition. He was admitted to hospital multiple times in 2015 with behaviour…

geriatric medicinepsychiatry
VIChospital2016-08-25

Finding into death of Robert Kingsley Whitehead

84y · Male·Complications of gout and old spinal injury, cause unknown

…ultiple comorbidities (gout, spinal cord injury, renal impairment, cardiac failure) presented with chest infection, abdominal pain, and urinary retention. He was treated with intravenous antibiotics for suspected overwh…

haematologyinfectious diseasesmirtazapine
SAhospital2010-06-03

Coroner's Finding: PROMNITZ Aileen Dawn

79y · Female·Sepsis due to urinary tract infection with Group B streptococci

A 79-year-old nursing home resident died of sepsis from urinary tract infection with Group B streptococci after waiting 6 hours in the Emergency Department without being…

emergency medicineinfectious diseasesdelaysystem
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