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72y · Male·ischaemic heart disease due to right coronary artery thrombus and unstable plaqu…
Michael Richard Meerman, a 72-year-old man with schizophrenia and diabetes, died of ischaemic heart disease due to right coronary artery thrombosis. He was subject to a Mental Health Act Treatment Order and received comm…
78y · Female·Complications arising from a left femur fracture following an unwitnessed fall i…
Doreen Mansfield, a 78-year-old woman with bipolar affective disorder managed with lithium and ECT, was admitted to the Royal Hobart Hospital under a Mental Health Act treatment order. She sustained an unwitnessed fall i…
32y · Male·sudden cardiac arrhythmia
Craig Catley, aged 32, died of sudden cardiac arrhythmia while in prison custody one day after discharge from Prince of Wales Hospital following neurosurgery for a pituitary tumour. The coroner found his hospital care wa…
37y · Female·open finding - undetermined
Katherine Ackling-Bryen disappeared on 19 February 2016 and is presumed dead. She had a history of schizophreniform psychosis with a 2013 hospitalisation during which she expressed suicidal ideation. Post-discharge, she …
28y · Male·hanging
Aaron Nathan Stagg, 28-year-old man with likely Asperger's Syndrome and emerging paranoid psychosis, died by hanging on 5 March 2010 after a period of disengagement from mental health services. He was referred to Top End…
88y · Female·sepsis of unknown origin
An 88-year-old woman with multi-infarct dementia and behavioural disturbance was detained under the Mental Health Act following assault of her GP. She presented with abdominal symptoms and deteriorating vital signs, tran…
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