475 results for “psychiatric admission”
27y · Female·Injuries sustained in motor vehicle incident (pedestrian)
…ng borderline personality disorder (BPD) and alcohol dependency, with frequent crises involving multiple admissions to psychiatric units and private rehabilitation facilities. Despite extensive engagement with mental he…
57y · Male·Head injury from fall; with coronary atherosclerosis and complete heart block wi…
…ical failures in falls risk management were identified: no formal falls risk assessment was completed on admission despite prior fall history, despite clear clinical indicators of increased fall risk (unsteady gait, hyp…
71y · Male·Organ failure in an elderly man receiving palliative medical care for renal fail…
…ultiple comorbidities including COPD, early gastric carcinoma (treated with gastrectomy), diabetes, and psychiatric illness. His complex medical and mental health needs were managed through prison medical staff and exte…
17y · Male·Cerebral ischaemia caused by hanging at Quamby Youth Detention Centre at approxi…
…ed at Quamby Youth Detention Centre. During his second remand in September 1996, after a failed hospital admission, he returned to the same unit where he had attempted hanging days earlier. Despite being on five-minute …
48y · Female·head injuries from multiple blunt force trauma including punching, elbowing and …
A 48-year-old woman, Kathy Tranter, was killed by her 20-year-old son who was an involuntary psychiatric patient at Orygen Youth Health (OYH) with acute paranoid schizophrenia. The son was granted overnight l…
46y · Female·mixed drug toxicity
46-year-old woman with bipolar disorder and chronic suicidal ideation died from mixed drug toxicity involving clozapine (prescribed to her roommate), olanzapine, fluoxetine, oxycodone, and diazepam. She disclosed to her …
84y · Male·Bronchopneumonia in the setting of pulmonary emphysema and hypertensive heart di…
Maxwell Howard, 84, died from bronchopneumonia in the setting of pulmonary emphysema and hypertensive heart disease while admitted to a mental health acute unit under a Temporary Treatment Order. He had multiple comorbid…
25y · Male·Injuries sustained when struck by a train (suicide)
…fective disorder, borderline personality disorder, and antisocial personality traits, was admitted to a psychiatric inpatient unit (IPU1) on 12 April 2013 following a serious suicide attempt by hanging. He died the next…
40y · Male·metastatic malignant melanoma
… third presentation. Brain metastases and C6 spinal involvement were subsequently found. During terminal admission, he developed confusion and agitation from brain metastases and pain, necessitating an Inpatient Treatme…
41y · Male·Septicaemia secondary to chronic peptic ulcer disease
…s expert evidence indicates that timely medical intervention, proper food/fluid monitoring, appropriate psychiatric hospitalization, or even application of section 24 of the Crimes (Administration of Sentences) Act to a…
28y · Male·neck compression subsequent upon hanging
Matthew Spalding, a 28-year-old psychiatric inpatient with borderline personality disorder and recent psychotic symptoms, died by hanging on 25 Apr…
84y · Female·Multisystem organ failure related to complications from a fall resulting in hip …
Patricia O'Connor, 84-year-old woman with bipolar disorder, was admitted involuntarily to Sunshine Aged Persons Mental Health Unit on 15 August 2017 during a manic relapse. On 25 August, she fell and fractured her right …
73y · Male·Neck compression in the circumstances of hanging
A 73-year-old man with severe depression and suicidal ideation died by hanging at a private psychiatric facility on 9 February 2019 during voluntary admission. He was assessed as low risk despite recent suic…
22y · Male·Multiple injuries caused when the vehicle he was driving collided with a tree
22-year-old Benjamin Gilligan died in a motor vehicle crash while fleeing psychiatric care, having been recently diagnosed with methylamphetamine-induced psychosis. Key clinical issues iden…
29y · Female·gunshot wound to the abdomen
… she was appropriately discharged from Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital following involuntary mental health admission for drug-induced psychosis; acute symptoms had resolved. The discharge was clinically sound with communi…
28y · Male·Hanging
Daylon Roeton, 28, died by hanging in a mental health seclusion room using a ligature made from blanket binding. He was admitted involuntarily after expressing suicidal ideation and paracetamol overdose. The coroner foun…
64y · Female·hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy caused by neck compression and hanging
…ness that potential ligatures had not been systematically removed from that area. The coroner found the psychiatric care and decision-making were appropriate, but the search process and documentation were significantly …
35y · Male·Hanging
…hizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder, and PTSD, died by hanging after absconding from an involuntary psychiatric admission. On 10 January 2011, following a clinical review at Broadmeadows In-Patient Unit assessing hi…
51y · Male·complications of opiate toxicity; cardiac and respiratory arrest following drug …
…ical lessons include: the importance of considering the full context of a patient's presentation over an admission period rather than a single day's apparent improvement; the necessity of involving family, drug and alco…
53y · Male·severe burns
Mr Bloomfield, a 53-year-old man with complex psychiatric and substance abuse history, was apprehended by police under section 10 Mental Health Act after threate…
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