167 results for “acute mental health deterioration”
2y · Female·drowning
A 2-year-old child died by drowning at her home in September 2016. Her mother was suffering from acute psychosis and had stopped taking antipsychotic medication days before the death. Critical failures occurre…
41y · Female·Multiple injuries due to impact by train
…after absconding from a locked psychiatric ward at Alfred Hospital. She had been on escorted leave, became acutely agitated upon returning home, and was brought back to the ward by ambulance at 7:31pm. Critical failures…
27y · Female·hanging
…isorder died by hanging while voluntarily admitted to a psychiatric inpatient unit. She had presented with acute suicidality following relationship breakdown and job loss, with two recent suicide attempts including hang…
25y · Female·Chest injuries due to fall from height
…r-old male) died by suicide by jumping from the Buranda car park across from Princess Alexandra Hospital's Mental Health Unit within a 10-month period despite being involuntary patients on observation regimes with leave …
32y · Male·methylamphetamine toxicity
…ital, he was removed by correctional officers without formal medical discharge. Upon return to prison, his acute behavioural disturbance from drug toxicity was not recognised as requiring hospital transfer. A rigid 'TOG…
47y · Male·Multiple gunshot wounds; discharged by police officer during enforcement of Comm…
…t Order breach enforcement operation in his home. He had severe, treatment-resistant schizophrenia and was acutely psychotic during the incident. Critical failures occurred throughout: inadequate risk assessment and pla…
49y · Male·Multiple injuries from a fall from height
…se and alcohol intoxication, presenting with manic relapse. On the day of death, he was seen by his GP and mental health crisis team, both noting deterioration, paranoid delusions, and non-compliance with Olanzapine. Des…
29y · Female·Multiple injuries due to fall from height
A 29-year-old woman with rapidly deteriorating mental health presented to Ipswich Hospital ED triaged as ATS Category 3 requiring assessment within 30 minutes. …
51y · Male·mixed prescription drug toxicity (amisulpride, diazepam and mirtazapine)
A 51-year-old man with schizophrenia, depression and early dementia died from mixed prescription drug toxicity (amisulpride, diazepam, mirtazapine) after a deliberate overdose. He had recently presented to hospital with …
58y · Male·Cardiomegaly and severe single vessel coronary artery atherosclerosis in a man w…
…an with schizoaffective disorder, was admitted to a psychiatric inpatient unit on 21 August 2012 following mental health deterioration. He presented with signs of infection, received appropriate clinical assessment and i…
36y · Male·Multi-organ failure complicating injecting drug use
… substance abuse was admitted involuntarily to a psychiatric unit on 15 September 2012 after community deterioration. He improved over several weeks and was transitioned to voluntary status on 15 October. On 23 October,…
78y · Male·large left basal ganglia intracerebral haemorrhage with mass effect
…lia intracerebral haemorrhage with mass effect while admitted under an Inpatient Treatment Order (ITO) for acute hyperactive delirium. He had stage 4 lung cancer with extensive brain metastases discovered on MRI. His de…
58y · Male·Gastrointestinal haemorrhage due to erosive gastritis
…ury sustained in a motor vehicle accident in 1970. This injury caused chronic brain damage and progressive mental health deterioration requiring lifelong institutional care. In April 2004, he was admitted to hospital wit…
41y · Male·head and chest injuries from fall from height
…phrenia died by suicide, jumping from the Tasman Bridge on Christmas Eve 2022. He had a 15-year history of mental illness with multiple suicide attempts, previously managed with antipsychotic injections and antidepressan…
39y · Female·MJU: stab wounds to the neck and chest; KJH: stab wounds to the back
…m reporting CTH's hallucinations, paranoia and drug use, paramedics and police assessed him as not meeting Mental Health Act thresholds for involuntary admission. The coroner identified system failures in Child Protectio…
69y · Male·Partial contact range gunshot wound of the head
…eptember 2017. He had been receiving psychiatric care from Dr McDougall and case management from community mental health services. Following a July 2017 hospitalisation for acute depression and suicidality related to an …
59y · Male·disseminated carcinoma due to right lung carcinoma
…ted to pneumonia; malignancy was suspected but could not be confirmed before death due to his clinical deterioration. The autopsy revealed aggressive disseminated lung cancer with extensive spread. Expert review by Prof…
24y · Male·Injuries sustained in fall from height
… with recently diagnosed Stage 4B non-Hodgkin lymphoma and pre-existing depression managed by Orygen Youth Health, died by suicide on 22 September 2016 by jumping from the seventh-floor rooftop garden of Peter MacCallum …
41y · Male·Hanging
…l and received psychiatric care after referral, though there was a two-month delay in accessing the Prison Mental Health Service due to resource limitations. His psychiatrist provided good care and found no evidence of a…
49y · Male·Hanging
…der and recurrent depression experienced a relapse while in Tasmania and was referred to a community-based Acute Care Team in Queensland in November 2009. Despite his partner repeatedly requesting hospitalisation and ex…
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