88 results for “acute psychotic illness”
45y · Male·Coronary Atherosclerosis
…r Charles Gairdner Hospital 11 days before death with palpitations and dyspnea, attributed to psychiatric illness after cardiac investigations appeared normal. During his final psychiatric admission, his general medical…
Multiple stab wounds to chest (David Gerard: stab wound to chest piercing heart;…
Joint inquest into two homicides by individuals with schizophrenia who were managed by mental health services. Anthony Butler stabbed David Gerard in 2001 after being discharged from Glenside Hospital without Community T…
28y · Male·Multiple injuries sustained in a motor vehicle collision (driver)
… dual diagnosis patients; clinicians' interpretation of the Mental Health Act as precluding detention once acute psychotic symptoms resolved despite ongoing serious risks; discharge on Friday 29 January without case man…
41y · Male·unascertained
David Davidson Lawson, a 41-year-old Aboriginal man with chronic alcohol use disorder and a history of psychotic symptoms during withdrawal, disappeared from a remote homestead on the Dampier Peninsula in October 2010…
45y · Male·Natural causes - cardiac arrest, most likely secondary to severe tardive dyskine…
Mark Andrew Burnside, a 45-year-old man with intellectual disability and chronic mental illness, died of natural causes on 7 November 2001 at Royal Perth Hospital. He had been prescribed thioridazine (…
33y · Male·Gunshot injury to the anterior trunk (chest and upper abdomen)
Desmond Jack, a 33-year-old with longstanding bipolar affective disorder and psychotic symptoms, died from a single gunshot wound to the anterior trunk after being shot by police officer Seni…
81y · Female·ischaemic bowel
…She was admitted to psychiatric care under Mental Health Act detention. On 9 May 2009, her physical health acutely declined with shock-like symptoms. Emergency laparotomy revealed extensive bowel ischaemia deemed incomp…
Male·RP: fatal pressure to the neck; DJ: neck compression
… at the Metropolitan Remand and Reception Centre after being placed with mentally ill cellmates exhibiting acute psychosis. RP died in 2010 from injuries inflicted by cellmate MA, who was suffering untreated schizophren…
60y · Male·Mixed drug toxicity
A 60-year-old man with schizophrenia and depression presented to Maroondah Hospital ED with acute psychotic symptoms after stopping his antipsychotic medication (trifluoperazine) due to manufacturer disco…
30y · Male·unknown - no postmortem examination performed
…versity pastoral care, social work, and law enforcement can allow vulnerable foreign students experiencing acute psychosis to fall through safety gaps, and how administrative delays in missing person investigations deny…
62y · Male·Incised wound to the neck
A 62-year-old man died from an incised neck wound inflicted by his son during a psychotic relapse. The son, with a 15-year history of schizophrenia managed in the community, was experiencing wor…
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…
59y · Female·multiple injuries from fall from height
…pine, died from multiple injuries after falling from her third-floor balcony on 12 October 2017 during a psychotic relapse. The death occurred shortly after the unexpected death of her long-term partner and de facto fat…
70y · Female·Asphyxia due to airway obstruction
…y obstruction while an inpatient in a mental health unit. She was admitted with first-episode mania with psychotic features, triggered by financial scam victimization. Despite appropriate psychiatric management with ant…
0y · Female·unascertained
A nine-month-old First Nations child (Baby Q) was killed by her psychotic father in November 2018. The family, transient and homeless, were known to child protection and police i…
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 …
41y · Male·unknown
Dean Anthony Pollard was a 41-year-old man with a long history of schizophrenia and amphetamine-induced psychotic disorder who disappeared in May-June 2010 and is presumed dead. He had multiple psychiatric admissions b…
33y · Male·hanging
…had been remanded in custody for three weeks. Despite psychiatric assessment on 15 September identifying psychotic symptoms and thought disorder, he was commenced on antipsychotic medication (Olanzapine) and referred to…
34y · Male·self-inflicted hanging
…uary 2018 after absconding from Alice Springs Mental Health Unit during supervised cigarette leave. He was acutely psychotic with persecutory delusions related to methamphetamine use and prescribed dexamphetamine overus…
24y · Male·multiple stab wounds to the chest that he inflicted upon himself
…erous spree involving vehicle theft, assault, and police pursuit. Despite psychiatric treatment with antipsychotics, he stopped medication multiple times. On 4 January 2019, he rammed a police vehicle, stole a truck and…
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