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51y · Male·complications of opiate toxicity; cardiac and respiratory arrest following drug …
Ziad Hamawy, a 51-year-old man with chronic schizophrenia and polysubstance use disorder, died from opiate toxicity after cardiac arrest following his discharge from Concord Hospital's mental health unit on 18 March 2019…
29y · Male·Combined methadone, diazepam and clonazepam toxicity in a man commencing a metha…
Phillip Black, age 29, died from combined methadone, diazepam and clonazepam toxicity after commencing methadone maintenance therapy. He presented to Dr D. on 23 September 2010 seeking to re-commence MMT, having previous…
26y · Male·Closed head injury with extradural and subdural haemorrhage resulting from a sku…
26-year-old Marcio Jose Lay Nheu died from a closed head injury with extradural haemorrhage caused by a blow to the head with a Maglite torch at Karama Shopping Centre. He was struck by Rodney Foster during an altercatio…
29y · Female·respiratory depression caused by morphine intoxication on a background of upper …
A 29-year-old woman with infectious mononucleosis and severe sore throat died from respiratory depression caused by morphine intoxication with concurrent upper airway narrowing. A GP administered 30mg intramuscular morph…
terminal palliative care in a girl with a clinical diagnosis of aspiration pneum…
A 12-year-old girl with severe cerebral palsy (quadriplegia) died from aspiration pneumonia whilst in state care following removal from her mother's care. Her mother, HC, had chronic benzodiazepine and opioid dependence,…
37y · Male·Acute Aspiration Pneumonitis following on Quetiapine Ingestion
…er and alcohol dependence, died on 4 November 2002 from acute aspiration pneumonitis following quetiapine overdose. After presenting to Avro Clinic in May 2002 homeless and unwell, he was placed at St Bartholomew's hoste…
35y · Male·cardiac arrhythmia with amisulpride toxicity, and myocarditis being contributory…
…ming between midnight and 3am. Postmortem toxicology showed 4.4mg/L amisulpride (toxic level), suggesting overdose, though cause of access remains unclear. The coroner found multiple systemic failures in handover procedu…
33y · Male·Opiate toxicity
A 33-year-old man with previously unrecognized obstructive sleep apnoea was admitted with severe headache. The treating physician prescribed a complex regimen of escalating opiate doses including both slow-release (MS Co…
25y · Male·acute bronchopneumonia and methadone toxicity with high body mass index and obst…
…ious. Key failures included: inadequate head-check procedures allowing potential missed identification of overdose; long wait times for drug and alcohol assessments (3 months); and serious incident response procedures pe…
[18, 21, 23, 19, 22, 19]y · ["male", "female", "male", "male", "male", "female"]·MDMA toxicity (one case mixed MDMA and cocaine toxicity)
This inquest examined six deaths from MDMA toxicity after electronic dance music festivals in NSW between December 2017 and January 2019: Hoang Nathan Tran (18), Diana Nguyen (21), Joseph Pham (23), Callum Brosnan (19), …
Male·Combined effects of multiple blunt force injuries and the effects of fire (Craig…
Craig Whitall, a 49-year-old on methadone maintenance therapy, drove erratically on the Princes Highway after leaving hospital on Boxing Day 2017, colliding head-on with the Falkholt family vehicle, killing five people. …
Three deaths with different primary causes: James Unicomb - acute toxicity due t…
…hree deaths at Psyche South Clinic involving treatment failures: James Unicomb (22, 2005) from multi-drug overdose after naltrexone implant; Michael Poole (48, 2008) from ruptured aneurysm post-Rapid Opioid Detoxificatio…
48y · Female·Combined toxic effect of prescription and non-prescription medications including…
…enting mandatory prescription monitoring systems. The coroner found no evidence of suicide or intentional overdose, concluding the death resulted from lawful medications with unforeseen cumulative toxicity. Patient non-d…
39y · Female·Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy due to cardiorespiratory arrest due to methadon…
A 39-year-old woman with opioid dependency died from cardiac arrest caused by methadone toxicity. She had been prescribed up to six take-away doses of 120mg methadone per week by her GP under Queensland's Opioid Treatmen…
30y · Male·Mixed drug toxicity (codeine, tramadol, oxazepam, diazepam)
Dean Wright, a 30-year-old man with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety and opioid dependence, died from mixed drug toxicity involving codeine, tramadol, oxazepam and diazepam. He systematically obtained prescriptio…
23y · Male·injuries sustained in fall from Tasman Bridge and/or drowning after submersion i…
A 23-year-old man with bipolar disorder, polysubstance dependence, and chronic self-harm died by jumping from the Tasman Bridge hours after psychiatric discharge. Despite two suicide attempts within 48 hours preceding as…
32y · Male·methylamphetamine toxicity
Joshua Steven Kerr, a 32-year-old Aboriginal man with intellectual disability and substance use disorder, died from methylamphetamine toxicity on 10 August 2022 at Port Phillip Prison. After lighting a fire in his cell a…
31y · Female·organ failure due to anorexia nervosa
Chloe Tupper died of organ failure due to severe anorexia nervosa at age 31. She had suffered from this illness for 17 years since age 14, receiving multiple episodes of hospital-based refeeding that never achieved lasti…
47y · Male·Aspiration pneumonia due to or as a consequence of coronary atherosclerosis
Christopher Hammett, a fit 47-year-old, died from aspiration pneumonia with contributing coronary atherosclerosis following routine L5-S1 disc replacement. A critical oxygen desaturation (64%) occurred during transfer fr…
47y · Male·Bronchopneumonia on a background of methadone and benzodiazepine use
Frank Frood, a 47-year-old man with a 20-year history of heroin use and opioid replacement therapy (ORT) on methadone, died from bronchopneumonia with a background of methadone and benzodiazepine use. He suffered chronic…
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