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30y · Female·Mixed drug toxicity (propranolol, duloxetine and codeine)
Melanie Reynolds, a 30-year-old registered nurse with borderline personality disorder and depression, died from mixed drug toxicity (propranolol, duloxetine, codeine). She had engaged with Crisis Assessment and Treatment…
52y · Female·Hanging due to depression
Mrs B, a 52-year-old woman with a 17-year history of recurrent depression, suicidal ideation, and borderline personality traits, was admitted to Cairns Base Hospital Mental Health Unit on 11 March 2008 with escalating su…
20y · Male·Multiple injuries due to contact with a train
Jonathan Saccu, a 20-year-old with severe treatment-resistant schizophrenia, absconded from an open mental health unit and was fatally struck by a train approximately 3 hours later. He was admitted on an involuntary trea…
35y · Male·Choking due to impaction of soap in airway
A 35-year-old man with treatment-resistant depression and complex psychiatric presentation died from choking on a bar of soap while in involuntary psychiatric care. He had attempted multiple suicides previously. Clinical…
41y · Male·mixed drug toxicity (ethanol, amitriptyline, methadone, morphine, diazepam, tema…
Matthew Frandsen, a 41-year-old with longstanding illicit drug and alcohol use disorder, died from mixed drug toxicity involving ethanol, methadone, morphine, amitriptyline, and benzodiazepines. He was found heavily into…
66y · Male·Undetermined - natural causes; likely sudden cardiac arrhythmia
Colin Toogood, a 66-year-old man with a long history of intellectual disability, epilepsy, brain injury, and remote stroke, died suddenly while using the toilet in residential care. He complained of neck soreness before …
37y · Male·Toxic effects of heroin in combination with mirtazapine and sertraline
Leigh Ronald Bellingham, a 37-year-old man with a history of depression, suicidality, hepatitis C, and substance abuse, died from toxic effects of heroin in combination with mirtazapine and sertraline in June 2008. He wa…
31y · Male·Quetiapine toxicity in a man consuming sertraline and mirtazapine
31-year-old with bipolar disorder died from quetiapine toxicity while taking sertraline and mirtazapine. He was under a Community Treatment Order and his treating team reduced his antipsychotic dose while he deteriorated…
44y · Female·Dilated cardiomyopathy
Hazel Marie Lalara, a 44-year-old woman with schizophrenia and peripheral neuropathy, was remanded in custody to The Park Centre for Mental Health in January 2009. She received psychiatric treatment for acute psychosis a…
38y · Male·Aspiration pneumonia in the setting of cerebral palsy
Argyrios Carras, a 38-year-old man with cerebral palsy, intellectual disability, scoliosis and oesophagitis, died from aspiration pneumonia. He was dependent on PEG feeding and had a history of recurrent respiratory infe…
24y · Female·unascertained
Karina Bell, 24, was found dead in an alleyway in October 2011. The medical cause of death remained unascertained despite full autopsy, toxicology, and investigation. Post-mortem findings showed minor traumatic injuries …
62y · Female·Hypoxic brain injury complicating mixed drug toxicity
Evelyn Faye Scherger (62F) died from hypoxic brain injury following a polypharmacy overdose on 6 September 2011, two days after discharge from the Mildura Base Hospital Emergency Department. She had presented after a sus…
54y · Female·unascertainable
Tracy Margaret Marshall was a 54-year-old woman admitted to Nickol Bay Hospital on 20 February 2011 after reporting suicidal ideation and three suicide attempts. She presented with signs of psychotic illness including bi…
21y · Male·Acute hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy and pneumonia in a man with recent trauma…
Peter Martin Carroll, age 21, died on 8 June 2007 in the ICU at Royal Perth Hospital from acute hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy and pneumonia following oxycodone overdose. He had been discharged that day (5 June) after …
31y · Male·Hanging
A 31-year-old man with borderline personality disorder presented to mental health services after a suicide attempt on 30 March 2005, discharged after psychiatric assessment at Maroondah Hospital ED. Following several cri…
30y · Male·asphyxia due to hanging (suicide)
30-year-old Adam Trent Ryan died by suicide via hanging in July 2009. Multiple systemic failures preceded his death. The Community Mental Health Service failed to communicate Mr Ryan's past suicide attempt to the hospita…
41y · Male·Effects of Fire
Mark Robert Scott, a 41-year-old man with chronic pain, substance addiction, and recent depressive illness, was admitted to Frankston Hospital on 15 July 2011 following suicidal ideation. During admission, he disclosed t…
66y · Female·Complications following paracetamol overdose
A 66-year-old woman died from complications of paracetamol overdose after ingesting Mersyndol (codeine/paracetamol combination tablets). She had developed dependence on over-the-counter Mersyndol over approximately 8 yea…
46y · Female·mixed drug toxicity
46-year-old woman with bipolar disorder and chronic suicidal ideation died from mixed drug toxicity involving clozapine (prescribed to her roommate), olanzapine, fluoxetine, oxycodone, and diazepam. She disclosed to her …
50y · Female·septicaemia
Julie Anne Bramble, a 50-year-old woman with alcohol dependence and recent drug use, died from septicaemia on 1 April 2011 at her home in Bundaberg. Over 4-5 days prior to death, she developed progressive symptoms includ…
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