NEWS: Tiffany O'Keefe has been published by the Australian Health Law Bulletin

Law Graduate, Tiffany O'Keefe, has had an article published in the Australian Health Law Bulletin titled ‘Taser deployment and identifying venous thromboembolism examined in the mandatory coronial inquest into the death of Stephen Kline’.

This article analyses a recent coronial inquest into the sudden death of a patient who died of pulmonary thromboemboli whilst in hospital care, due to a leg burn wound caused by taser deployment.

In the course of this inquest, interesting recommendations were made about clinical software that was used in practice and the Coroner emphasised the importance of educating clinicians on its use. The inappropriate assessment of the taser guidelines by the New South Wales Police Force (NSW Police) was also scrutinised during the inquest.

Read the full article here (PDF 713.1KB).

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