35y · Male·hyponatraemia due to excessive consumption of water, against a background of psy…
…uel, a 35-year-old Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander man with treatment-resistant schizophrenia and psychogenic polydipsia, died in custody from hyponatraemia following excessive water consumption. His psychiatric c…
60y · Male·end stage refractory chronic congestive cardiac failure on a background of chron…
…ngestive heart failure while under Mental Health Act detention. He had multiple comorbidities including psychogenic polydipsia, recurrent hypernatraemia, and severely impaired left ventricular function (EF 18%). Despite…
35y · Male·Hyponatraemia, with psychogenic polydipsia and schizophrenia/schizoaffective dis…
Daniel Turnbull, aged 35, died in custody from hyponatraemia secondary to psychogenic polydipsia whilst in a 24-hour surveillance cell at Bathurst Correctional Centre. He had a long history…
37y · Male·water intoxication and olanzapine toxicity in association with schizophrenia
…e precise mechanism difficult to separate. Care was deemed appropriate despite his rare presentation of psychogenic polydipsia (excessive water drinking), not yet well-recognised in custodial settings. Resuscitation att…
72y · Female·Bronchopneumonia
Diane Young, a 72-year-old psychiatric resident with multiple comorbidities including asthma, aortic stenosis, and intellectual disability, died of bronchopneumonia with contributing ischaemic heart disease. She was seen…
64y · Male·Multiple organ failure due to paracetamol toxicity
…cific symptoms (lethargy, falls, acute deterioration) that were misattributed to his known dementia and psychogenic polydipsia. By presentation to hospital on day of death, he had irreversible severe renal and hepatic f…
20y · Male·diffuse cerebral oedema caused by hyponatraemia caused by excessive self-induced…
…ers. In June 2000, he was admitted with severe hyponatraemia and seizure from excessive water drinking (psychogenic polydipsia). A new individual plan was prepared requiring shower supervision. On 6 September 2000, casu…
47y · Male·Complications of acute agitation in the setting of a prolonged struggle in an ac…
Ricky Broughton, a 47-year-old man with chronic treatment-resistant schizophrenia, died during police restraint while being transferred for involuntary psychiatric assessment. After moving from Geelong to Ballarat in Feb…
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