110 results for “aggressive behaviour”
22y · Male·Drowning
A 22-year-old university student with recent substance use presented to ED following violent behaviour. He had facial trauma with mild head injury and abnormal metabolic parameters. Initial management approp…
47y · Male·Compression of the neck arising from hanging
47-year-old man with antisocial personality disorder, psychosis, and methamphetamine use died by hanging. He presented to emergency departments on 10, 19, and 20 September 2021 with suicidal ideation, auditory hallucinat…
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…
24y · Male·Haemorrhagic shock in the setting of a sharp force injury to the left arm
…hin 24 hours (4-5 September 2020) following police apprehension under the Mental Health Act for erratic, aggressive behaviour. Each time, ED and mental health assessments determined he did not meet criteria for compulsor…
94y · Male·blunt head and neck trauma with associated haemorrhage; neck trauma included fra…
Charles Rowan McCulloch, aged 94, died from blunt head and neck trauma sustained in an assault by another dementia resident in Jindalee Aged Care Residence, ACT. He was admitted on 20 January 2012 and found deceased on 2…
34y · Male·Neck compression due to hanging
A 34-year-old man with a history of polysubstance abuse, high alcohol intake, and a recent suicide attempt died by hanging six weeks after being admitted to mental health services. Critical clinical lessons: (1) dual dia…
31y · Female·Compression of the neck
…e concerns when treating both Ms O'Brien and Mr Sturt. On 23 June 2019, despite documented delusions and aggressive behaviour, Mr Sturt was discharged the same night after psychiatric assessment that appeared to minimise…
31y · Male·hanging (self-inflicted)
…He had been transferred to an isolated management unit (Unit 7) on 1 June after displaying agitation and aggressive behaviour during a blood sugar check. Nursing staff recognised his deteriorating mental state and arrang…
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 cardiac arrest on a psychiatric unit. He presented to ED on 15 A…
78y · Female·cardiorespiratory failure, ischaemic and hypertensive heart disease together wit…
… to inexperienced agency registered nurse (RN C), and breakdown of routine care for resident Mr A, whose behavioural escalation was not managed. The 1½-hour ambulance dispatch delay, while acknowledged as unacceptable, …
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