139 results for “paranoid_schizophrenia”
45y · Male·bronchopneumonia and combined drug toxicity
Boris Drleski, a 45-year-old with treatment-resistant chronic paranoid schizophrenia, antisocial personality disorder, and polysubstance use disorder, died from bronchopneumonia and combined drug toxicity. He was managed…
65y · Female·Early bronchopneumonia and hypoxic brain injury following aspiration of food (ch…
Anna Maria Cameron, a 65-year-old woman with treatment-resistant schizophrenia, died from aspiration choking while eating on a psychiatric ward. She had been recently transferred to a rehabilitation unit for reassessment…
74y · Male·disseminated carcinoma (widespread cancer); specifically haemorrhage into right …
Ronald Smallwood, a 74-year-old man with chronic paranoid schizophrenia and renal cancer, died in hospital from disseminated carcinoma. The key clinical lesson relates to institutional knowledge rather than direct patien…
30y · Male·Exsanguination due to an incision in the radial vein of his right wrist
Michael David John Nolan, aged 30, died in prison from exsanguination following a self-inflicted laceration to his radial vein. He had complex mental health needs including schizophrenia, acquired brain injury, developme…
27y · Male·Toxicity to heroin
Nathan Chalkley, 27, died from heroin toxicity on 27 January 2007. He was released from Barwon Prison in October 2006 on parole after serving time for criminal offences. Despite engagement with corrections, a psychiatris…
25y · Male·consistent with drowning in a man with multiple injuries
Warren Guneratne, a 25-year-old man with paranoid schizophrenia, was admitted involuntarily to the psychiatric unit of Royal Melbourne Hospital on 28 January 2008 after assessment by the Crisis Assessment and Treatment T…
27y · Male·HEAD INJURY SUSTAINED IN A MOTOR VEHICLE COLLISION (PEDESTRIAN)
Mark Connolly, 27, with paranoid schizophrenia and command hallucinations, was admitted to the Low Dependency Unit of a psychiatric hospital despite expressing intent to jump from a moving car and requesting High Depende…
49y · Male·undetermined
A 49-year-old man with paranoid schizophrenia on clozapine became non-compliant with mental health appointments in July 2021. After threatening clinic staff while acutely psychotic, mental health services and police atte…
38y · Male·carbon monoxide toxicity
Samuel Mark Walsh died by carbon monoxide toxicity (suicide) in October 2014 while subject to a custody order for a forensic mental health condition. He had paranoid schizophrenia and had been remarkably stable on clozap…
60y · Female·effects of fire in a woman with alcohol effect
A 60-year-old woman with chronic paranoid schizophrenia died in a domestic fire on 26 July 2014. The day before, her son sought help from police and mental health services after noticing signs of mental health deteriorat…
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…
36y · Female·Internal injuries consequent on being stabbed repeatedly by Rocky Manu, a man wi…
Jasmine Roennfeldt, a 36-year-old woman with schizoaffective disorder being treated at a community mental health clinic, died from stab wounds inflicted by her flatmate Rocky Manu, who had paranoid schizophrenia. Rocky h…
69y · Male·haemopericardium due to extensive aortic dissection due to hypertensive heart di…
A 69-year-old man died in prison from haemopericardium secondary to extensive aortic dissection caused by chronic hypertension. Death was rapid and occurred in the early morning hours. The autopsy confirmed natural cause…
68y · Female·glottic obstruction by food bolus
A 68-year-old woman with Huntington's disease, schizophrenia, and schizoaffective disorder died from glottic obstruction by food bolus while eating breakfast in a psychiatric hospital where she was detained under the Men…
26y · Male·respiratory arrest complicating hydrocarbon inhalation (sudden sniffing death)
A 26-year-old man with schizophrenia, antisocial personality disorder, and polysubstance abuse died from sudden sniffing death syndrome after inhaling fly spray in a psychiatric ward smoking room. Three days prior, staff…
38y · Male·Hanging
Adam Cartledge, 38, died by hanging in his cell at Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre while on remand. He had a long history of psychiatric illness, including depression, paranoid schizophrenia, previous suicide attempts,…
43y · Male·Pneumonia
Jeffrey John Hartwig, a 43-year-old with chronic schizophrenia and opiate dependence, died from pneumonia following cardiorespiratory collapse on an acute psychiatric inpatient unit. He was on multiple psychoactive medic…
24y · Male·Hypoxic brain injury secondary to hanging
BJ, a 24-year-old with paranoid schizophrenia, substance abuse disorder, and anti-social personality disorder, died by hanging in a psychiatric unit after a suicide attempt. He was admitted on 4 January 2016 with suicida…
41y · Male·mixed drug toxicity (methadone, valproate, zuclopenthixol)
Michael David Rex, a 41-year-old man with chronic treatment-resistant paranoid schizophrenia, died from mixed drug toxicity (methadone, valproate, zuclopenthixol) while detained in Ward 5H of the Margaret Tobin Centre ps…
27y · Male·cardiac arrhythmia during restraint; mechanism involved hypoxia and asphyxiation…
Warwick Andrew Ashdown, a 27-year-old male with severe treatment-resistant paranoid schizophrenia, died at Graylands Hospital on 12 October 2007 from cardiac arrhythmia during physical restraint. After assaulting another…
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