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44 results for schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder

NSWhospital2014-12-19

Inquest into the death of JX

32y · Male·multiple injuries sustained in a fall from height

A 32-year-old man with a history of psychotic episodes and depression died by suicide after jumping from a cliff while experiencing an acute psychotic relapse. The case reveals critical failings in mental health crisis r…

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NTmental health2025-02-14

Inquest into the death of Pukumani

47y · Female·acute respiratory failure in the context of known underlying chronic obstructive…

Rita Alimankinni (Pukumani), aged 47, died from acute respiratory failure while an involuntary mental health patient in the Joan Ridley Unit. Her death was preventable. She had COPD, obesity, and received multiple high-d…

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SAmental health2025-04-17

Coroner's Finding: Furlan, Mark John & Miller, Richard John

50; 37y · Male; male·Mark John Furlan: hypoxic brain injury due to acute neck compression due to hang…

… continuous rather than close observations, and that key psychiatric warnings (paranoid comments, thought-disordered writings) were not adequately communicated to treating psychiatrist Dr S., who should have reassessed a…

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VIChospital2023-03-10

Finding into death of Armin Andrew Schaefer

63y · Male·Hypoxic ischaemic brain injury and pneumonia complicating cardiac arrest in a ma…

Armin Schaefer, a 63-year-old man with schizophrenia, cardiac risk factors, and emphysema, died from hypoxic-ischaemic brain injury and pneumonia following…

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