391 results for “psychiatric medication management”
65y · Male·Self-inflicted incised and stab wounds to neck and incised wounds to wrists
…d features (diagnosed 2003) and autoimmune thyroiditis. In the week before death, he experienced adverse medication effects (paranoia, panic attacks) after being prescribed antidepressants for worsening depression and an…
33y · Male·Respiratory failure due to mixed drug toxicity (amitriptyline, oxycodone, morphi…
A 33-year-old man with chronic back pain, depression, morbid obesity and sleep apnoea died in psychiatric custody from respiratory failure due to mixed drug toxicity and probable aspiration. He was heavily med…
37y · Female·Mixed drug toxicity (methadone, diazepam, clonazepam, amisulpride, olanzapine, h…
Susan Robb, 37, was admitted involuntarily to Northern Hospital Psychiatric Unit with deteriorating mental health and on a Community Treatment Order. Three weeks after self-discon…
31y · Male·hanging
…d Centre while in lawful custody. He had been transferred to the Mental Health Screening Unit for acute psychiatric care after expressing paranoid ideation at Cessnock Correctional Centre. Critical clinical failures wer…
28y · Male·hypoxic encephalopathy secondary to hanging
…t-traumatic stress disorder and depression following the 1998 HMAS Westralia fire, died by hanging in a psychiatric hospital. He had been admitted on 8 November 2003 after separation from his de facto wife triggered acu…
23y · Male·injuries sustained when struck by train
Jarrod Christie, 23, a voluntary then involuntary psychiatric inpatient at Maroondah Hospital, absconded from the high-dependency unit on 22 December 2012 and died b…
39y · Female·Gunshot wound to the head
…h psychosis in 2015, treated with olanzapine, and discharged with instructions to continue antipsychotic medication. In March 2016, she relapsed with suicidal and homicidal thoughts, was stabilized by psychiatrist Dr C. …
35y · Male·drowning following combined drug and alcohol intoxication
…r, and alcoholism, died by drowning in his bathtub while intoxicated with alcohol and therapeutic-level psychiatric medications. He had sought hospital admission multiple times in the preceding days and was scheduled fo…
81y · Male·cardiac arrest following neck compression due to hanging
…c assessments that were delayed or not completed. Critical issues included: inadequate documentation of psychiatric assessments (the consultant conducted no documented comprehensive assessment); failure to clarify the p…
77y · Female·Complications of malnutrition in a woman with paranoid delusions
A 77-year-old woman with complex medical and psychiatric history died from complications of malnutrition while an inpatient with paranoid delusions and delirium…
44y · Male·neck compression consistent with hanging
…Hospital on 1 February 2014. He had been granted ground leave on hospital grounds as part of therapeutic management. Three psychiatrists, including his treating doctor, assessed him as having low suicide risk and he had …
38y · Male·multi organ failure secondary to intestinal ischaemia from toxic megacolon relat…
…ounds for criticism of medical treatment. However, the case highlights the importance of proactive bowel management in psychiatric patients on constipating medications, particularly those with limited ability to self-rep…
68y · Female·Complications of a fall with contributing factors of respiratory failure, respir…
…was admitted to Ryde Hospital where she refused treatment, became aggressive, and resisted hydration and medication administration. Despite appropriate medical care, she died on 11 June 2017. Expert toxicology review con…
30y · Male·Exsanguination due to an incision in the radial vein of his right wrist
… Services appropriately managed his care during his final weeks, including appropriate risk assessments, medication, and psychiatric reviews. While Nolan was at baseline elevated suicide risk due to his conditions, the c…
79y · Male·Acute Myocardial Infarction; Underlying multiple pathologies including vascular …
…s, pacemaker, renal impairment, vascular dementia) died from acute myocardial infarction while in acute psychiatric care. He was transferred to Peter James Centre from general hospital for management of agitation and co…
50y · Male·Neck compression and hanging
…ith PTSD, depression, and past polysubstance use, died by suicide via hanging. He had been engaged with psychiatric care since 2021, showing improvement with EMDR therapy and medication (escitalopram, medicinal cannabis…
53y · Female·self-inflicted hanging
…s without support persons or adequate notice. Simultaneously, her psychiatrist reduced her antipsychotic medication and transitioned her abruptly to GP care without proper planning, leaving her feeling abandoned. The psy…
31y · Male·mixed drug toxicity
… his case manager appropriately identified escalating violence, substance abuse, and non-compliance with medication. However, he absconded from the psychiatric ward the next morning before psychiatric review. Critical cl…
56y · Male·Aspiration of gastric content secondary to combined drug toxicity
…ne over years without adequate oversight or specialist coordination. One GP mistakenly believed ongoing psychiatric supervision was occurring when contact had ceased in 2011. The other GP knew psychiatric care had ended…
30y · Male·Acute Cardiac Dysrhythmia of Uncertain Aetiology
…inal admission in February 1998, he developed severe behavioural disturbance resistant to anti-psychotic medication, progressing to medication-induced delirium. He was treated with multiple anti-psychotic agents, includi…
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