Finding into death of Jeanette Bramley
Deceased
Jeanette Bramley
Demographics
64y, female
Date of death
2010-02-26
Finding date
2011-03-29
Cause of death
unascertained
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Jeanette Bramley, a 64-year-old woman with chronic paranoid schizophrenia resident in aged care, was found unresponsive on the floor of her room and died despite 50 minutes of CPR. Post-mortem examination could not definitively establish a cause of death. She was prescribed Clozapine for resistant schizophrenia; her blood level was 3.5 mg/L, below the range typically associated with Clozapine toxicity (3.7-12 mg/L), though toxicity could not be excluded. The coroner found no issues with care provision at the facility and no suspicious circumstances. This case highlights the diagnostic challenges in sudden unexplained deaths in aged care residents on antipsychotic medications and the importance of ongoing monitoring of clozapine levels and cardiac function in this population.
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Contributing factors
- possible Clozapine toxicity
- chronic paranoid schizophrenia
- aged care resident
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