273 results for “acute mental illness”
28y · Male·Global cerebral ischaemic injury due to hanging
… remanded prisoner with a serious psychotic condition and documented suicide risk, was discharged from the Acute Assessment Unit on 7 May 2010 with an S3 (potential) risk rating after psychiatric assessment. Despite sub…
41y · Male·head and chest injuries from fall from height
…phrenia died by suicide, jumping from the Tasman Bridge on Christmas Eve 2022. He had a 15-year history of mental illness with multiple suicide attempts, previously managed with antipsychotic injections and antidepressan…
46y · Female·pulmonary thromboembolism due to bilateral deep calf vein thrombosis
…tary psychiatric admission. She was severely withdrawn, refusing food, fluids, and mobilisation due to her acute psychotic illness. Staff recognised DVT risks and encouraged mobilisation, but comprehensive physical exam…
58y · Male·Amitriptyline toxicity
…rists at both Monash and Alfred Hospitals assessed him as not meeting involuntary admission criteria under Mental Health Act, as he denied suicidal ideation, showed no acute psychiatric symptoms, and lacked clear mental …
34y · Male·self-inflicted hanging
34-year-old Jordan Allen died by suicide on 1 February 2018 after absconding from Alice Springs Mental Health Unit during supervised cigarette leave. He was acutely psychotic with persecutory delusions related…
40y · Male·gunshot wounds
…enia, died of gunshot wounds after a nine-hour police siege at his Taree home on 31 July 2019. Todd became acutely psychotic, waving a knife and expressing paranoid delusions about people entering his home and police we…
44y · Male·Positional asphyxia
…ous risk; combination of alcohol with clozapine and cannabis caused profound CNS depression; patients with mental illness and substance abuse require coordinated monitoring and safe medication management. The coroner not…
70y · Female·Asphyxia due to airway obstruction
…0-year-old retired psychiatric nurse, died from asphyxia due to airway obstruction while an inpatient in a mental health unit. She was admitted with first-episode mania with psychotic features, triggered by financial sca…
64y · Male·Septic shock secondary to urosepsis (Pseudomonas and Stenotropomonas maltophilia…
…sented to a private hospital emergency department with suspected sepsis (vomiting, diarrhoea, hypotension, acute kidney injury, elevated troponin, hyperkalaemia, metabolic acidosis). The locum doctor and nurses failed t…
24y · Male·Injuries sustained in fall from height
…entre. Despite a history of depression with previous suicidal ideation, SJ was assessed as low-risk by his mental health team and appeared clinically stable and engaged with staff on the morning of his death. The coroner…
28y · Female·acute streptococcus pneumonia meningitis with left-sided otitis media as anteced…
Michelle McIlquham, 28 years old, died from undiagnosed acute bacterial meningitis (streptococcus pneumonia) that developed from a middle ear infection. She presented t…
23y · Female·Hypoxic-ischaemic brain damage due to self-inflicted hanging with intention of t…
…S assessment (scheduled one week post-release despite known drug use and suicide risk), failure to arrange mental health bail conditions despite documented suicidality in custody, and loss of opportunity when Access Ment…
23y · Female·Injuries sustained in a fall from a height
…s with untreated mood disorders, and the need for comprehensive risk assessment when patients present with acute changes in affect or presentation despite reported denial of suicidal thoughts.
16y · Male·Hanging (ligature compression of neck)
…Queensland in 2008. JE's death was impulsive, occurring after paint sniffing and alcohol use combined with acute anger from assault by his sister. JJ's death followed deliberate ideation, with multiple documented suicid…
39y · Male·septicaemia following self-administered intravenous injection of faeces
… substance dependence died from septicaemia after self-injecting faeces into his vein while an involuntary mental health patient. He obtained a syringe from a sharps container during escorted leave. Clinical lessons incl…
38y · Male·acute cardiac arrhythmia in a man with cardiomegaly, focal coronary atherosclero…
… and significant cardiovascular risk factors (obesity, smoking, focal coronary atherosclerosis), died from acute cardiac arrhythmia while in mental health involuntary care. He was admitted to the High Dependency Unit af…
27y · Male·cardiac arrhythmia during restraint; mechanism involved hypoxia and asphyxiation…
…raining, procedural safety, and inadequate monitoring of access to alcohol and drugs that precipitated his acute deterioration.
64y · Male·Complications of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease following a fall
…nal visual loss was suspected. He developed major depression with suicidal ideation and was admitted to an acute mental health unit. On 7 August, he fell backwards, hitting his head, but was assessed as orientated with …
27y · Male·Effects of fire
…ffective disorder. Following abscondment on 13 April 2018, he returned to Victoria but received inadequate mental health follow-up despite being acutely unwell, medication-free, and still subject to a treatment order. Th…
30y · Male·Exsanguination due to an incision in the radial vein of his right wrist
…ied in prison from exsanguination following a self-inflicted laceration to his radial vein. He had complex mental health needs including schizophrenia, acquired brain injury, developmental delay, and substance abuse hist…
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