External factors such as the environment and personal habits come into play, and even acts of God where the individual, blessed by a disease-free and long life, is hit by a car or suffers any other unexpected fatal occurrence.
The two most serious complications are loss of vision because of dislocation of the eyes' lenses and detached retinas, and weakening of the aorta, rendering it prone to rupture, a usually fatal occurrence.
Although the delivery seemed to go well initially, the placenta broke apart during the birth and became infected; puerperal (childbed) fever was a common and often fatal occurrence in the eighteenth century.
Bleeding into the tracheobronchial tree is a potentially fatal occurrence for intubated patients.
The occurrence of an air embolism in the left atrium, left ventricle, or systemic circulation during a percutaneous core needle biopsy of the lung (PCNB) [ 1] with a subsequent systemic air embolism (SAE), with incidences between 0.01% and 0.21%, is a rare, but potentially fatal occurrence [ 2- 8].
Two incidents had fatal outcomes (occurrence of these incidents was not directly attributed to cause of death) and a further five were classed as 'near misses' (i.e. incidents that had the potential to cause harm, but were prevented).
Similarly, educational level was not found to be a significant predictor of all-cause injury morbidity in different samples of American adults.,, Although less-educated people might be at a higher risk of non-fatal injury occurrence, this could be counterbalanced by underreporting of less severe traumas, less access to medical care and a greater exposure to more lethal injury types.
Occurrences of fatal or nonfatal cancer were extracted from serious adverse events.
In the ensuing 7 years and 40,000 more patient years of tolcapone use, no additional occurrences of fatal hepatotoxicity have been linked to the treatment.
The occurrence of a fatality or fatalities with one fatal cause identified and one date.
