Coroner blames ‘rushed’ move to electronic charts for patient death
A move from paper to electronic charts in an aged care home led to a fatal medication error after two patients were mixed up, a GP…
Tag: Coroner
Patient death ‘likely’ avoided if GP ordered ECG and troponin tests: coroner
A coroner has criticised a rural GP for not ordering an ECG or troponin tests for a patient who repeatedly presented with chest pain. It…
Child deaths: Coroner highlights bad connections between GP and specialist mental health service
A coroner has highlighted poor communication between a specialist mental health service and patient’s GP in the months before she killed herself and her three…
GP’s reliance on patient’s self-examination during telehealth consult was a mistake, says coroner
A GP’s elderly patient would not have died from a bowel obstruction had the GP insisted she attend for a face-to-face consult rather than guide…
Access block highlighted in patient’s death from ruptured aortic aneurysm
A coroner has blamed access block in a Victorian hospital for the potentially preventable death of a patient who died from a ruptured aortic aneurysm.…
Doctor who raised alarm about morgue case acted with ‘integrity’
WA officials have denied suggestions a palliative care patient may have been alive when he was transferred to a Perth morgue. The state coroner’s court is…
Claims a man put in a Perth morgue ‘still alive’
A palliative care patient may have been alive when he was transferred to a Perth morgue, according to claims being investigated by the Coroner’s Court of…
Pregnant woman died from sepsis after antibiotic treatment delays, inquest told
A nurse found a syringe containing the prescribed antibiotic on her hospital bedside table.
GP urges coroner to make ‘bold’ findings after pregnant daughter’s sepsis death
Dr Brian Moylan has told the Coroner's Court of Victoria that sub-standard private hospital regulations contributed to his pregnant daughter's deat…
Doctors describe distressing deaths during one of the pandemic’s worst aged care COVID-19 outbreaks
One resident's oxygen tank ran out, another died 'uncomfortably' without end-of-life drugs, an inquest hears.
