151 results for “paranoid psychosis”
35y · Male·atherosclerotic heart disease with methylamphetamine effect in a man under physi…
…ng ischaemic heart disease and recent cardiac arrest (April 2016) presented with increasingly erratic and paranoid behaviour after methylamphetamine use and alcohol consumption. He climbed onto a house roof in the early …
38y · Male·Exsanguination due to penetration of arm veins
…08 from exsanguination due to penetrating wounds to his arm veins. Brennan had a long-standing history of paranoid schizophrenia with fixed delusions and polysubstance abuse. In the months before death, he became non-com…
51y · Male·complications of opiate toxicity; cardiac and respiratory arrest following drug …
…oroner found insufficient consideration was given to concerning weekend behaviour (aggression, delusions, paranoid thinking, secreting razor blades, requiring seclusion). Critical clinical lessons include: the importance…
65y · Male·Multiple fatal injuries from motor vehicle collision (Williamson and Rowe); mult…
Three men died in a head-on motor vehicle collision on the Bass Highway, Tasmania on 26 February 2020. Adam Robertson, driving a Toyota Prado eastbound, crossed the centre line and collided with Shane Williamson's westbo…
38y · Male·Toxicity to methylamphetamine
… acute behavioural changes consistent with methamphetamine intoxication on 15 December 2013. He displayed paranoid delusions, hyperactivity, and bizarre behaviour after consuming methylamphetamine within 12-24 hours prio…
41y · Male·acute neck compression due to hanging
Simon Christopher Hynes, aged 41, died by hanging between 7 June and 5 July 2007, shortly after discharge from hospital on leave of absence under a Mental Health Act continuing detention order. He had a 20-year history o…
50; 37y · Male; male·Mark John Furlan: hypoxic brain injury due to acute neck compression due to hang…
…d he should have been under continuous rather than close observations, and that key psychiatric warnings (paranoid comments, thought-disordered writings) were not adequately communicated to treating psychiatrist Dr S., w…
41y · Male·Unable to be ascertained
41-year-old male with schizophrenia/drug-induced psychosis and methamphetamine use died following police restraint on M5 motorway. Admitted to Shellharbour Hospita…
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 bronchopneumoni…
30y · Male·mixed butane, isobutane and propane toxicity
Justin Lee Gibson, a 30-year-old Indigenous man on home detention bail, died from inhalation of butane/propane causing fatal cardiac arrhythmia. He had a documented history of substance abuse (alcohol, cannabis, and buta…
33y · Male·hanging
…a complex mental health history including probable methamphetamine dependence and recurrent drug-induced psychosis, died by hanging in custody at the Metropolitan Remand and Reception Centre on 23 September 2020. He had…
50y · Male·Pneumonia
Anthony Mandel, a 50-year-old man with intellectual disability and schizophrenia, was admitted to Box Hill Hospital on 4 May 2007 following an acute psychotic episode. He was transferred to a mental health unit, then bac…
27y · Male·unascertained; likely death from entering water
…ar Bondi Beach on 23 March 2017, likely after experiencing an acute mental health crisis characterised by paranoid delusions and auditory hallucinations. Multiple clinical and operational failures contributed to his deat…
27y · Male·compression of the neck due to hanging
…charged after only six days despite continued florid psychotic symptoms. His diagnosis as 'first episode psychosis' was erroneous; longitudinal history showed likely relapsed psychosis with probable bipolar disorder. Af…
89y · Female·Aspiration pneumonia complicating electroconvulsive therapy for treatment of psy…
Hilda Berg, 89-year-old woman with depression, psychosis, atrial fibrillation, chronic kidney disease and type 2 diabetes, deteriorated in hospital with refusal …
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 psych…
29y · Male·hanging
Muhammad Hafizuddin Bin Zaini, a 29-year-old detainee in immigration detention at Villawood, died by hanging on 12 December 2020. He had a history of substance-induced psychotic disorder and was prescribed antipsychotic …
50y · Male·bronchitis (pandemic influenza A/H1N1 2009) in a man with chronic obstructive pu…
… Graylands Hospital. He had recently been started on clozapine on 26 August 2010 for treatment-resistant psychosis. On 30 August, he developed a low-grade fever (38.2°C) which responded to paracetamol. Dr A. appropriate…
45y · Female·Neck compression secondary to hanging
…died by hanging while experiencing severe untreated psychotic symptoms including auditory hallucinations, paranoid delusions, and persecutory ideation. She had complex mental health diagnoses (borderline personality diso…
30y · Male·Unascertained; likely cardiac arrhythmia
…, died in police custody following restraint after climbing onto roofs while displaying drug-affected and paranoid behaviour. Post-mortem examination revealed an unascertained cause, likely a cardiac arrhythmia triggered…
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