167 results for “acute mental health deterioration”
40y · Male·Victims: fatal stab wounds from knife attack; Joel Cauchi: fatal gunshot wounds …
…019, and provided inadequate discharge information when he left her care in March 2020. Cauchi was lost to mental health follow-up for over two and a half years and did not engage with services in NSW despite homelessnes…
38y · Male·Acute drug toxicity due to clozapine-induced cardiac arrhythmia
A 38-year-old remand prisoner with schizophrenia on clozapine died suddenly in prison from acute drug toxicity (clozapine-induced cardiac arrhythmia). He had been transferred from psychiatric hospital to…
35y · Male·cardiac arrhythmia with amisulpride toxicity, and myocarditis being contributory…
…cardiac arrhythmia with amisulpride toxicity and myocarditis. He was admitted to custody with a history of mental health issues and drug-induced psychosis, prescribed amisulpride 200mg which was increased to 600mg on 20 …
29y · Male·hanging
…unication between medical and nursing staff, absence of occupational therapy, and failure to remove environmental hazards. While individual clinical judgment was not faulted, serious systemic deficiencies represented los…
40y · Female·hypoxic encephalopathy and epilepsy with diffuse fibrillary astrocytoma within t…
…zures, medication non-compliance, 72-hour sleep deprivation); (2) inappropriate application of a community mental health management plan to a custodial setting, which recommended avoiding detention despite manifestations…
60y · Female·sepsis due to community acquired pneumonia
…r 2018 with bilateral community-acquired pneumonia and was discharged after 6.5 hours despite clinical deterioration. She collapsed at home within hours and died at Royal Adelaide Hospital. The coroner found her death w…
36y · Male·bronchial asthma
…rt evidence confirmed that earlier ambulance dispatch could have given him a chance of survival. More fundamentally, during his four months in custody, Nathan's severe asthma was never properly assessed or managed; he wa…
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