88 results for “acute psychotic illness”
41y · Male·Incised injury to the neck
…period. On the day of death, the resident presented to police mentioning he might kill someone, appeared psychotic, underwent psychiatric assessment, and was released. Shortly after, he killed Pedro with multiple incise…
32y · Male·Multiple injuries sustained in a fall from a height
…erpass in Melbourne. In the early hours of 24 November, his father called triple zero reporting Adam was psychotic with paranoid delusions. Victoria Police officers assessed Adam using section 351 Mental Health Act and …
22y · Male·Hanging
…ssed razor blades and exploited an obvious hanging point. Clinical lessons include: severe chronic mental illness is inadequately managed in custodial settings; inmates with recent psychiatric hospitalization require mo…
29y · Male·Unascertained causes on a background of agitated delirium state
A 29-year-old man with a 12-year history of mental illness died in police custody during transport to a police station. He had stopped taking his antipsychotic medi…
34y · Female·Multiple injuries sustained when she stepped off the ledge of a second-floor win…
… attending an intensive self-development course called 'The Turning Point' (14–18 December), she exhibited acute psychotic symptoms including bizarre behaviour and regression to child-like states. The coroner found expe…
30y · Male·Exsanguination due to self-inflicted multiple stab and incised wounds
…2016 in Tasmania. He had a long history of psychosis and depression dating from age 14, treated with antipsychotic medication with variable compliance. In the weeks before death, he experienced escalating paranoia and d…
54y · Female·Hanging
…vere depression and anxiety in early 2011. After two suicide attempts, she was admitted to Austin Health's Acute Psychiatric Unit involuntarily. After 11 days of treatment and progressive day leave, she was approved for…
24y · Male·Environmental exposure in a man with methylamphetamine effect
Dean Jesse Gerrard-Latham, a 24-year-old Indigenous man, died from environmental exposure while acutely intoxicated by methylamphetamine in bushland near Derby, WA. After evading police in a stolen vehicle, h…
53y · Male·unknown - no postmortem examination possible
…manner of death due to absence of remains. The case highlights challenges in managing persons experiencing acute behavioural change and mental health crises, particularly when resources are limited and individuals disen…
42y · Male·hanging, an action taken by himself with the intention of ending his life
A 42-year-old man with acute psychosis was hospitalised for 26 days and discharged from a psychiatric facility to an isolated rural isl…
40y · Male·Penetrating wounds to the chest
…ad, Western Australia in January 2017 by Damian Maxfield, who was experiencing a methamphetamine-induced psychotic episode. Maxfield had been apprehended by police following a violent incident at another address approxi…
47y · Male·Complications of acute agitation in the setting of a prolonged struggle in an ac…
…orated but CPR was not commenced until 9 minutes after becoming unconscious. He died from complications of acute agitation during prolonged struggle while acutely psychotic. Key failures included: lack of communication …
43y · Male·blunt neck trauma from compression of the neck
Stephen John Barton, aged 43, died from blunt neck trauma inflicted by roommate Lindon Sekrst in a psychiatric ward. Both were detained patients under Mental Health Act orders. Sekrst, a 23-year-old with paranoid ideatio…
20y · Male·Ligature Compression of the Neck (Hanging)
Steven Charles Indich, a 20-year-old Aboriginal man with schizophrenia and a long history of psychotic symptoms, violent behaviour and substance abuse, died by suicide in Smith Ward at Graylands Hospital on …
53y · Male·Multiple gunshot injuries
…d man with longstanding unresolved childhood trauma, affected by COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, developed acute paranoia and anxiety. Believed people were hacking his devices and tracking him. When school welfare staff…
88y · Female·sepsis of unknown origin
…rated bowel, diverticulitis, colitis, or ischaemic bowel). Clinical lesson: early recognition of physical illness in elderly patients with dementia and behavioural problems is challenging but critical. The patient had c…
40y · Male·Aspiration pneumonia
…e (NMS), died from aspiration pneumonia following intubation at Werribee Mercy Hospital. He presented with acute abdominal pain and vomiting, imaging suggested small bowel obstruction, and he became agitated during naso…
27y · Male·Cardiac arrest due to cardiac arrhythmia triggered by prone restraint (some of w…
…Peachey, a 27-year-old First Nations man, died in custody following a police-initiated restraint during an acute psychotic episode. Over preceding days, his family repeatedly sought mental health intervention. On 20 May…
40y · Male·gunshot wounds
…enia, died of gunshot wounds after a nine-hour police siege at his Taree home on 31 July 2019. Todd became acutely psychotic, waving a knife and expressing paranoid delusions about people entering his home and police we…
27y · Male·cardiac arrhythmia during restraint; mechanism involved hypoxia and asphyxiation…
…2 October 2007 from cardiac arrhythmia during physical restraint. After assaulting another patient while psychotic, he was restrained face-down by security and nursing staff. Post-mortem examination revealed significant…
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