8 results for “medication overuse”
45y · Male·multiple drug toxicity
…rom other inmates or unauthorised sources. His mirtazapine levels exceeded prescribed amounts, suggesting overuse. The coroner found no deficiency by correctional or health services. Clinical lessons include: recognisin…
49y · Female·Bronchopneumonia, hypoxic brain injury, and combined drug toxicity (oxycodone an…
…uscitation. Over 15 months prior to death, she had seven hospital admissions for overdoses of prescribed medications. Her GP, Dr N., prescribed high-dose oxycontin (240mg/day) and diazepam despite repeated overdoses and …
54y · Male·Unable to be ascertained. Multiple contributing factors identified: arrhythmogen…
…tient overdosed significantly); physiological stress from psychosis and physical restraint; and possible medication miscommunication. Critical clinical lessons: (1) the combination of doxepin and venlafaxine requires car…
50y · Male·Hanging
…s formal monitoring processes; (5) managing the balance between adequate Parkinson's symptom control and medication-induced behavioural disturbances is extremely challenging and requires careful coordination. Alfred Heal…
26y · Female·multiple blunt force injuries from fall from height; significant contributing co…
…r the same day. Expert evidence indicates she should have been involuntarily detained overnight to allow medication overdose effects to clear and permit comprehensive discharge planning, though three experienced psychiat…
48y · Male·hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy, complicating cardiac arrest in the setting of …
…days later. Clinical lessons include: all asthmatics need written action plans and appropriate preventer medications (not just reliever); hay fever sufferers warrant allergy testing and preventive therapy; those at risk …
38y · Male·Mixed drug toxicity
DA was a 38-year-old man who died from mixed drug toxicity involving sedating medications and alcohol. He had longstanding severe anxiety and became dependent on codeine and benzodiazepines, in…
54y · Male·carbon monoxide asphyxia
Dallas Brooks Shrimpton, a 54-year-old man with severe alcohol dependence, chronic depression, and multiple previous suicide attempts, died by carbon monoxide asphyxiation. He presented to Royal Hobart Hospital ED on 16 …
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