292 results for “acute psychosis”
18y · Male·neck compression due to hanging
Rowan Wheaton, aged 18, died by hanging at supported accommodation in April 2006. He had Aspergers Syndrome diagnosed at age 4, with escalating behavioural and mental health crises from adolescence. Despite multiple emer…
22y · Male·Hanging
A 22-year-old man with severe chronic treatment-resistant schizophrenia and substance use disorder died by hanging in prison custody. He had been recently discharged from a mental health hospital to police custody follow…
34y · Female·Dothiepin toxicity in a setting of post-natal depression
Debra Smeeton, 34, died on 12 November 1999 from dothiepin toxicity following intentional overdose at home, eight days after giving birth. She had severe post-natal depression after her first child in 1996, requiring hos…
41y · Female·ligature compression of the neck (hanging)
… psychiatric patient at Bentley Health Service Ward 6 on 16 December 2020. She had been admitted following acute psychotic symptoms with paranoia and suicidal ideation. The coroner found multiple inadequacies in her car…
61y · Male·Complications of cutaneous burns
A 61-year-old man with severe chronic schizophrenia and extensive history of arson, suicide attempts and self-harm was admitted as a voluntary patient to a psychiatric inpatient unit and later made involuntary. Despite c…
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·ligature compression of the neck (hanging)
…ide regular follow-up; and rapid situational stressors (legal issues, relationship separation) can trigger acute risk escalation in chronically vulnerable individuals. The coroner found the care was reasonable within re…
Unknown·Multiple; Kunmanara Ward: neck compression due to hanging; Kunmanara Ken: exposu…
Four Aboriginal individuals died on Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands between May 2003 and March 2004. Ward (19) and Ryan (25) died by hanging with evidence of petrol intoxication. Ken (35) died from exposure after wandering a…
Unknown·Multiple causes including neck compression due to hanging (Ward, Ryan, Cooper) a…
This inquest into four deaths on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands involved multiple causes including hanging (three cases) and exposure with complications. Kunmanara Ward died by hanging while intoxicated with petrol; Kun…
29y · Male·cardiac arrhythmia
David Dungay, a 29-year-old Aboriginal man with chronic schizophrenia, type 1 diabetes, and obesity, died on 29 December 2015 in Long Bay Hospital's Mental Health Unit while in custody. The immediate trigger was his refu…
22y · Female·compression of the neck consistent with hanging
22-year-old Deborah McKenzie, an Aboriginal woman, died by hanging on 13 March 2013 after a complex sequence of failures in mental health care and police procedures. She had reported her partner Shane Woods to police for…
30y · Male·Malignant ventricular arrhythmia without myocardial infarction, precipitated by …
Jack Kokaua, a 30-year-old with schizophrenia and coronary artery disease, died from malignant ventricular arrhythmia during a police encounter after absconding from hospital. Contributing factors included positional asp…
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