273 results for “acute mental illness”
36y · Male·Hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy due to cardiac arrest occurring during restrain…
…raint by a homeowner. The deceased had entered the homeowner's house without permission while experiencing acute psychiatric symptoms (paranoia, delusions) likely triggered by amphetamine use. He had signs of undiagnose…
57y · Male·multiple injuries from motor vehicle collision
…ed 57, died in a motor vehicle collision on 17 January 2011 while evading apprehension under the Victorian Mental Health Act. He had schizoaffective disorder managed with lithium and olanzapine under a Community Treatmen…
46y · Male·Multiple blunt traumatic injuries sustained in motor vehicle crash; manner deter…
…is GP appropriately diagnosed the condition and referred him to psychology on 12 September, Ball expressed acute suicidal ideation to his brother and partner within days, specifically mentioning driving under trucks. An…
59y · Female·Sharp force injuries to the neck
…nd, Mr Dursun Yildiz, using a small axe at their home in Dallas, Victoria. The perpetrator had undiagnosed mental illness characterised by delusional beliefs that his life was at risk and auditory hallucinations. No disc…
45y · Female·Multiple blunt force injuries
A 45-year-old woman with acute psychotic illness attended Prince of Wales Hospital ED on 4 August 2020 after presenting to police with pe…
51y · Male·multiple injuries sustained by a high velocity fall from a height
…experienced Sergeant McCarthy engaging him for over an hour using de-escalation techniques consistent with mental health crisis training. Despite McCarthy's attempt to physically intervene when he assessed imminent dange…
48y · Male·shotgun wound to the head
A 48-year-old Yolngu man with chronic mental illness (schizophrenia) died from a shotgun wound to the head on Elcho Island, NT in April 1990. After spe…
36y · Male·undetermined (possibly ethylene glycol poisoning; possibly natural cause such as…
A 36-year-old man with acute psychotic illness absconded from Ryde Hospital Emergency Department on 3 August 2013 after refusing oral a…
73y · Female·pulmonary embolus
…epression with catatonia. The coroner found her medical care, supervision, and treatment whilst subject to Mental Health Act orders at the hospital was of good standard. The independent medical consultant found her compl…
77y · Female·Asphyxia from manual strangulation and smothering
Margaret Nicol Foran, aged 77, was killed by her son while he was experiencing an acute psychotic episode at her home in Launceston, Tasmania, between 22-23 April 2012. The cause of death was as…
81y · Female·ischaemic bowel
…nd self-neglectful, refusing food and cooperation with therapy. She was admitted to psychiatric care under Mental Health Act detention. On 9 May 2009, her physical health acutely declined with shock-like symptoms. Emerge…
21y · Female·Multiple blunt trauma with acute alcohol toxicity as a significant contributing …
… the preceding two months, but police failed to consistently enforce it. Key clinical and systemic issues: acute alcohol toxicity was a contributing factor to her death; one officer (Senior Constable Curyer) was working…
22y · Male·Drowning
…bolic parameters. Initial management appropriately prioritized medical assessment and resuscitation before mental health evaluation. He was sedated and restrained for acute agitation, with restraints removed after 3 hour…
92y · Female·community acquired pneumonia on a background of end stage chronic obstructive ai…
…dmitted to hospital in late December 2012 with health deterioration and malnutrition (38kg). She developed acute psychiatric symptoms including paranoid delusions and refusal of care, leading to Mental Health Act detent…
43y · Male·head, chest and abdominal injuries sustained when intentionally stepping into th…
Adrian Steven Lacroix, a 43-year-old man with a long history of mental health problems, severe depression, and suicidal ideation since 2013, died by suicide on 6 March 2021. On …
38y · Male·Internal haemorrhage complicating large calibre gunshot wounds to the neck
…ed severe head injury in childhood with confirmed organic brain damage, depressive episodes, and untreated mental illness. In the week before his death, he showed increasing evidence of psychotic illness (paranoid ideati…
48y · Male·Hypoxic brain injury following cardiac arrest in a patient with sigmoid colon vo…
… for 23 years, presented to Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital on 13 June 2004 with abdominal pain and signs of acute bowel obstruction. Initial assessment identified sigmoid volvulus on imaging. He deteriorated with oxygen …
28y · Male·Multiple injuries sustained in a motor vehicle collision (driver)
… long-term involuntary detention facilities for dual diagnosis patients; clinicians' interpretation of the Mental Health Act as precluding detention once acute psychotic symptoms resolved despite ongoing serious risks; d…
30y · Male·unascertained
Bayden Quilkey, 30, died from unascertained causes on 13 March 2008 during an acute psychotic episode while being restrained by police. He had recently moved from Queensland showing signs of…
69y · Male·Blunt head trauma
…with a sledgehammer in Katherine on 3 December 2013. Osborne was experiencing untreated schizophrenia with acute psychotic symptoms and believed his victim was someone else (Les Pearce). Osborne had been seen in the Kat…
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