212 results for “involuntary psychiatric admission”
15y · Male·asphyxiation by hanging
…services including Child Protection, Youth Justice, and the Adolescent Forensic Health Service. Despite psychiatric assessments identifying depression, anger issues, and trauma, psychiatrists recommended involuntary adm…
48y · Female·head injuries from multiple blunt force trauma including punching, elbowing and …
A 48-year-old woman, Kathy Tranter, was killed by her 20-year-old son who was an involuntary psychiatric patient at Orygen Youth Health (OYH) with acute paranoid schizophrenia. The son was granted…
25y · Female·Chest injuries due to fall from height
Two psychiatric inpatients (SH, 25-year-old female; AW, 24-year-old male) died by suicide by jumping from the Buranda c…
42y · Male·Multiple injuries sustained in motor vehicle crash
…015, despite signs of relapse and non-compliance, the treating team opted for outpatient management over admission due to bed unavailability and the patient's extreme fear of hospitalisation. The patient absconded to Me…
20y · Male·Multiple injuries due to contact with a train
…mental health unit and was fatally struck by a train approximately 3 hours later. He was admitted on an involuntary treatment order after suicidal ideation and had previously absconded the same day but returned voluntar…
42y · Male·Multiple injuries sustained in a motor vehicle incident (driver)
…ncerns about his risk to self and others, he was assessed as not meeting Mental Health Act criteria for involuntary treatment two days before his death. Mental health services attempted limited outreach without success.…
49y · Male·Unascertained - cardiac arrhythmia with terminal aspiration in an overweight man…
… Veltman, 49, died of unascertained cause (likely cardiac arrhythmia with terminal aspiration) while an involuntary psychiatric patient at Bentley Mental Health Services. He presented to Royal Perth Hospital ED on 15 Ju…
21y · Female·Neck compression
…derline personality disorder, and eating disorder, died by ligature at Thomas Embling Hospital while an involuntary inpatient under Mental Health Act orders. She had a lengthy history of self-harm (39 documented episode…
41y · Female·Multiple injuries due to impact by train
…ith schizophrenia and depression, died by suicide when struck by a train after absconding from a locked psychiatric ward at Alfred Hospital. She had been on escorted leave, became acutely agitated upon returning home, a…
36y · Female·Hanging
A 36-year-old woman with borderline personality disorder and alcohol use disorder died by hanging approximately one month after discharge from St Vincent's Hospital. She had been admitted involuntarily following threats …
23y · Male·hanging
A 23-year-old male with treatment-resistant schizophrenia died by hanging while an involuntary patient in the High Dependency Unit of Royal North Shore Hospital. He presented acutely on 4 February 2…
36y · Male·Undetermined; three possible mechanisms identified: oversedation with vomiting a…
Jacob Kennedy, a 36-year-old Aboriginal man with polysubstance use disorder and psychiatric illness, died on 4 February 2017 after 11 days as an involuntary inpatient at Frankston Hospital. He wa…
24y · Male·self-inflicted hanging
Linden Alan Kunoth, a 24-year-old Aboriginal man, died by suicide while on escorted leave from psychiatric care. He had been admitted with first-episode schizophrenia, presenting with florid psychosis and comma…
34y · Male·unascertained; most likely immersion after swimming at City Beach
…ng behavioural changes as potential warning signs, and assessing suicide risk in patients with comorbid psychiatric illness and substance misuse.
45y · Male·bronchopneumonia and combined drug toxicity
…se in community settings without integrated long-term residential facilities; (2) documentation gaps in psychiatric assessments after August 2018 with no recorded face-to-face reviews; (3) limited therapeutic options av…
29y · Female·gunshot wound to the abdomen
…er 2019. Four days prior, she was appropriately discharged from Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital following involuntary mental health admission for drug-induced psychosis; acute symptoms had resolved. The discharge was clin…
51y · Male·complications of opiate toxicity; cardiac and respiratory arrest following drug …
…ical lessons include: the importance of considering the full context of a patient's presentation over an admission period rather than a single day's apparent improvement; the necessity of involving family, drug and alco…
34y · Female·not able to be determined - body not found
Sana Salman, a 34-year-old woman with bipolar disorder and schizoaffective disorder, went missing on 1 September 2022 after being discharged from Northern Beaches Hospital on 22 August 2022. She had been admitted for a p…
50y · Female·Cyanide toxicity
A 50-year-old woman with complex mental illness including depression, anxiety, and borderline personality disorder died from cyanide toxicity after ingesting potassium cyanide obtained from Sigma-Aldrich. She made four a…
30y · Male·Acute Cardiac Dysrhythmia of Uncertain Aetiology
…March 1998 at Graylands Hospital from acute cardiac dysrhythmia of uncertain aetiology. During his final admission in February 1998, he developed severe behavioural disturbance resistant to anti-psychotic medication, pr…
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