212 results for “involuntary psychiatric admission”
34y · Male·Neck compression due to hanging
…mental health) was not adequately recognised—clinicians focused on addiction alone; (2) conversion from involuntary to voluntary status on day 1 lacked documented risk assessment and consultant psychiatrist input; (3) d…
49y · Male·undetermined
…ing clinic staff while acutely psychotic, mental health services and police attempted to locate him for involuntary admission. Despite multiple home visits and coordination attempts, Mr T evaded contact and travelled to…
32y · Male·plastic bag asphyxia
…y to his suicide. The treating team, influenced by concerns about his sexual re-offending risk, imposed involuntary depot medication without evidence of ongoing psychosis or demonstrated connection between antipsychotic…
55y · Male·Immersion (Drowning) arising by way of suicide
…d by drowning on 13 June 2003 after absconding from Joondalup Health Campus where he was detained as an involuntary patient under the Mental Health Act 1996. Prior to admission, he had drugged his wife with sleeping pil…
46y · Female·pulmonary thromboembolism due to bilateral deep calf vein thrombosis
…isorder died from pulmonary thromboembolism secondary to bilateral deep vein thrombosis five days after involuntary psychiatric admission. She was severely withdrawn, refusing food, fluids, and mobilisation due to her a…
78y · Female·Complications arising from a left femur fracture following an unwitnessed fall i…
…uring her left femur, and died from complications on 2 August 2015. A falls risk assessment completed on admission classified her as medium-low risk based on accurate information showing no prior falls history. While cl…
69y · Male·bronchopneumonia and hypoxic brain injury following aspiration of food (choking)
…male with bipolar affective disorder and suspected frontotemporal dementia, admitted involuntarily to a psychiatric hospital, choked on bread while eating breakfast unattended and suffered a cardiac arrest. Despite resu…
36y · Male·Gunshot wound to chest
Adam Quddus Salter, aged 36, experienced acute psychiatric decompensation on 18 November 2009 while living at his family home. After stabbing himself multiple tim…
52y · Female·Hypoxic brain injury due to hypotension in a woman with documented electrocardio…
Elizabeth Holley, 52 years old, was admitted involuntarily to a psychiatric ward with a history of three weeks of declining mental health and medication non-compliance. She receiv…
47y · Male·abnormal heart rhythm (arrhythmia) induced by atherosclerosis, occurring in the …
…r Shishko, a 47-year-old man with bipolar affective disorder, died in a mental health facility while in involuntary detention. He suffered a fatal cardiac arrhythmia on a background of severe coronary atherosclerosis, s…
26y · Female·compression of the neck consequent upon hanging
… multiple suicide attempts, died by hanging in the Northern Psychiatry Unit on 24 June 2010 while under involuntary psychiatric admission. She had presented to emergency with acute suicidality on 18 June, attended polic…
58y · Male·Combined drug toxicity (eucalyptus oil, alcohol, venlafaxine, quetiapine, propra…
…conded from his supported residential service and was found deceased. The coroner found Austin Health's psychiatric assessment and management suboptimal, highlighting failures to: utilise relapse prevention plans, antic…
62y · Female·Multiple injuries sustained from jumping from rocks at Torndirrup National Park …
… by paramedics. She was placed on a Form 1 mental health assessment order by Dr L.. However, the G Ward psychiatric unit had no bed capacity, and both available consultant psychiatrists declined to assess her—one citing…
74y · Female·Multiple injuries sustained when struck by train
… by suicide after absconding from Fiona Stanley Hospital Emergency Department. She had been on extended psychiatric admission and transferred to transitional care, where she became acutely suicidal. In the ED, she was a…
Unknown·Ruby: ligature compression of neck (hanging); Carly: ligature compression of nec…
…ischarged (Ruby Nicholls-Diver, Carly Elliott, Michael Thomas, Anthony Edwards) and one absconded while involuntary (Stephen Robson). Common failures included: inadequate individualised and risk management plans; poor i…
Female·multiple injuries due to a fall from height (suicide by jumping from multi-store…
…nd psychotic features died by suicide at a shopping centre car park on 21 September 2004, six days after admission to Belmont Private Hospital under an involuntary treatment order. She had attempted suicide in July 2004…
25y · Male·Head injury sustained on impact with a train
Edward Timothy Peterson, aged 25, was involuntarily admitted to Maroondah Hospital's psychiatric unit on 11 February 2021 with first episode psychosis. Clinical care by psychiatrist Dr C. was appropri…
20y · Male·hanging
A 20-year-old male with major depressive disorder and melancholic features was admitted to psychiatric hospital on 4 June 2003 under an indefinite involuntary treatment order by consultant psychiatrist Dr P…
54y · Female·Hanging
…ession and anxiety in early 2011. After two suicide attempts, she was admitted to Austin Health's Acute Psychiatric Unit involuntarily. After 11 days of treatment and progressive day leave, she was approved for two nigh…
48y · Female·Chronic Obstructive Airway Disease
… psychosis that rendered her unable to self-manage her medical conditions. She was admitted following a psychiatric crisis on 9 July 2002 and placed on a continuing detention order. Her condition progressively deteriora…
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