475 results for “psychiatric admission”
32y · Female·Stab wound to the back extending into the posterior neck, causing subtotal trans…
Michelle Darragh, a 32-year-old social worker, was fatally stabbed by her former partner Benjamin Coman on 9 October 2021. She was pregnant with their third child. The relationship involved progressive coercive control, …
63y · Male·Drowning
Antonio D'Augello, a 63-year-old man with schizophrenia and acquired brain injury, died by drowning in an irrigation channel four days after discharge from emergency care. He had deteriorated after stopping antipsychotic…
13y · Female·complications of a head injury sustained when she deliberately stepped in front …
…ith mental health clinicians. In the final 6 weeks before death, she had 8 ED attendances and 6 hospital admissions to the mental health unit. Critical gaps were identified: the Department of Communities failed to adequ…
54y · Male·Unable to be ascertained. Multiple contributing factors identified: arrhythmogen…
…ially with language barriers; (2) mental health deterioration with aggressive behaviour warrants urgent psychiatric assessment despite current calm presentation; (3) clinicians prescribing these drug combinations should…
asphyxia sequential to hanging (all three cases); Charles Barlow: schizophrenia …
… October 2005 in Far North Queensland mental health services. Charles Barlow (36, Aboriginal) was denied admission despite requesting transfer to Cairns Base Hospital Mental Health Unit; discharged from Yarrabah hospita…
56y · Male·Multiple injuries sustained in a motor vehicle incident (driver)
Daniel Frawley, a 56-year-old former AFL player and coach, died in a single-vehicle collision when his utility struck a tree at high speed (minimum 132 km/h) on a rural road. The coroner found he intentionally took his o…
27y · Male·Injuries sustained in descent from height
… and injecting testosterone. The Emergency Department doctor (Dr K.) assessed him, determined he needed psychiatric admission, but did not make a formal assessment order under section 30, relying on a Northern Hospital …
42y · Male·Multiple injuries sustained in a motor vehicle incident (driver)
…il; he was assessed by a mental health nurse and psychiatrist who determined he did not meet involuntary admission criteria and released him pending community follow-up. Two days later, he engaged in erratic driving beh…
22y · Male·Multiple injuries from fall from height
Mitchell Follent, 22, died by fall from a third-floor balcony five days after discharge from his first psychiatric admission for post-ictal/drug-induced psychosis. He had intellectual disability, epilepsy, and acquired…
34y · Male·aspiration pneumonia following seizure with concomitant global severe anoxic enc…
…ld Aboriginal man with post-traumatic epilepsy, organic brain damage from head injuries, alcoholism and psychiatric illness, died from aspiration pneumonia following a seizure. The death was preceded by discharge planni…
86y · Female·complications of femoral, radial and ulnar fractures; antecedent cause Alzheimer…
86-year-old Hazel Brockett died from complications of fractures inflicted by a fellow dementia-affected resident in a locked Memory Support Unit (aged care dementia facility). Over months prior, the other resident demons…
42y · Female·pneumonia with diffuse alveolar damage in the setting of mixed drug toxicity (Ba…
Allyson Bailey, a 42-year-old woman with complex polysubstance use disorder and borderline personality disorder, died from pneumonia with diffuse alveolar damage complicated by mixed drug toxicity (baclofen and pregabali…
50y · Male·upper airway obstruction (choking) from tissue paper
Richard Anthony Boros, a 50-year-old man with paranoid schizophrenia, died from upper airway obstruction (asphyxiation) after intentionally swallowing a dense ball of tissue paper while in the mental health assessment un…
41y · Male·complications in association with effects of fire, with terminal palliative care
…ity Treatment Order. Wilson was discharged from Graylands Hospital on 29 October 2021 following a 12-day admission for management of psychosis and recent suicidal behaviour (drain cleaner ingestion). Key deficiencies in…
41y · Female·Peritonitis following surgical procedure to the urinary bladder, due to infected…
Cheryl Lee Edmiston, a healthy 41-year-old woman, died of peritonitis and sepsis following minor bladder procedures (cystoscopy, hydrodilatation, and biopsy) at Joondalup Health Campus on 14 February 2003. The biopsies w…
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