157 results for “chronic psychosis”
67y · Female·choking and ischaemic heart disease
Patricia Ann Fidge, 67, died at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital from choking and ischaemic heart disease. She was admitted with delirium, hypernatremia, and multiple comorbidities including COPD and sleep apnoea. While eati…
31y · Male·Head and chest injury
…ngstanding history of mental illness, poly-substance abuse including intravenous amphetamines and heroin, chronic suicidal ideation, and multiple psychiatric admissions. On the day of his death, he consumed amphetamines…
36y · Male·undetermined (possibly ethylene glycol poisoning; possibly natural cause such as…
…definitively determined. Clinical lessons: the importance of one-to-one nursing observation during acute psychosis, secure containment protocols for acutely psychotic patients refusing medication, improved communication…
32y · Female·Blunt force trauma to the head
Ms Jacinta Pompei, aged 32, was killed by blunt force trauma to the head inflicted by her intimate partner, Mr Justin Ellard, who struck her repeatedly with a claw hammer while she slept. The coroner investigated whether…
64y · Male·acute myocardial infarction in association with coronary artery atherosclerosis
…ery disease, presented to Royal Perth Hospital on 15 December 2023 with an infected foot wound and acute psychosis. Initial troponin elevation was determined to be a false positive (assay interference). He was admitted …
33y · Male·Exposure to the elements whilst in a mentally unstable state; manner of death Op…
…e October 1996 from Wyndham, Western Australia, while in an acutely unstable mental state associated with chronic alcohol use disorder, withdrawal symptoms, and possible hallucinations. Despite extensive searches involv…
20y · Male·Hypoxic brain injury following ligature compression of the neck (hanging)
Devan Ginbey, a 20-year-old with longstanding mental health issues including depression, psychosis, ADHD, and substance abuse, presented to Peel ED on 12 January 2022 with self-harm and active suicidal i…
32y · Female·combined drug toxicity, mainly heroin
Natasha Calleja, 32 years old, died from combined drug toxicity (mainly heroin) while an involuntary inpatient at Swanston Centre psychiatric unit after her de facto partner supplied heroin during an unsupervised visit. …
38y · Male·Multiple gunshot wounds
A 38-year-old man with a history of methamphetamine use and mental health issues, subject to a violence restraining order, assaulted his father at home. The father reported to police that his son was armed with a knife, …
Male·Ashton Michael Sunfly: ligature compression of the neck (hanging); Mitchell Nana…
…nt due to truancy, unemployment, mental health issues, and substance abuse. The fifth death resulted from chronic petrol sniffing. The coroner identified school truancy as an early warning indicator of life trajectory o…
71y · Male·Combined effects of ischaemic and valvular heart disease
A 71-year-old man with chronic paranoid schizophrenia was detained under the Mental Health Act after community mental health workers obs…
42y · Female·Neck compression due to self-suspension
…ted to her son's death, died by hanging in her cell at Dame Phyllis Frost Centre on 24 July 2018. She had chronic suicidal ideation with periods of acute risk, was under regular psychiatric review, and was managed with …
25y · Male·hanging
… a complex psychiatric history including borderline personality disorder, polysubstance use disorder, and chronic suicidal ideation dating from childhood. Despite multiple episodes of mental health assessment and treatm…
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 hi…
30y · Female·Hanging
A 30-year-old woman with borderline personality disorder, substance abuse history, and exposure to multiple family suicides (father, close friend, partner's mother) presented to Emergency Department after self-harm and s…
33y · Male·hanging
…a complex mental health history including probable methamphetamine dependence and recurrent drug-induced psychosis, died by hanging in custody at the Metropolitan Remand and Reception Centre on 23 September 2020. He had…
58y · Male·coronary artery arteriosclerosis (natural causes)
…te at the time despite later appearing to be early relapse. He re-presented on 22 April 2020 with florid psychosis and was admitted to BMHU under a Form 6A involuntary treatment order. He collapsed on 27 April 2020 and …
58y · Male·metastatic carcinoma of the pancreas
…ined under a Mental Health Act treatment order in the ICU of Royal Hobart Hospital. He was admitted with psychosis in December 2016. On 5 January 2017, while awaiting ECT, an anaesthetist identified tachypnoea, tachycar…
41y · Male·unknown
…ntact was 17 May 2010 at Swan District Hospital where psychiatric assessment found no acute risks despite chronic substance use and aggression. He had poor medication compliance, escalating drug dependence, and episodes…
45y · Male·Stab wound to the chest, self-inflicted
Shane Lockwood, a 45-year-old man with chronic schizophrenia, died by self-inflicted stab wound in April 2009, approximately two months after discharge …
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