Australian Doctor News

Midwives covered up their failings during homebirth: coroner

25th October 2021
Two midwives tried to cover up their failure to adequately monitor fetal heart rate during a planned homebirth that ended in…
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Australian Doctor News

Coroner's plea for stricter pregabalin monitoring after overdose death

22nd September 2021
A coroner has criticised health officials for failing to add pregabalin to the list of medicines in Victoria’s real-time …
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Pregabalin
Australian Doctor News

Patient died after GP missed diabetic ketoacidosis: coroner

7th September 2021
A GP missed a case of diabetic ketoacidosis by failing to perform a fingerprick blood glucose test, partly because the…
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Blood glucose
6minutes News

Boy's asthma attack mistaken for panic attack: coroner

6th September 2021
An eight-year-old boy living under a government care order died from chronic asthma in a Tasmanian hospital when staff…
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6minutes News

Doctors didn't perform routine scan ahead of man's death

27th August 2021
Doctors' failure to perform a routine CT scan on a man who later died in hospital from a brain haemorrhage "markedly reduced…
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6minutes News

Doctor-shopper's death sparks renewed warning over pregabalin

4th August 2021
A Victorian coroner has added her voice to warnings about pregabalin misuse, after finding a man in his 30s died from…
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Australian Doctor News

Baby's death after homebirth was preventable: coroner

6th July 2021
The death of a baby six days after an attempted vaginal birth after caesarean homebirth could have been prevented if the…
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