88 results for “acute psychotic illness”
54y · Female·unascertainable
… February 2011 after reporting suicidal ideation and three suicide attempts. She presented with signs of psychotic illness including bizarre behaviour, religious ideation, and visual phenomena, but was not prescribed an…
36y · Male·undetermined (possibly ethylene glycol poisoning; possibly natural cause such as…
A 36-year-old man with acute psychotic illness absconded from Ryde Hospital Emergency Department on 3 August 2013 after refusing oral a…
45y · Female·Multiple blunt force injuries
A 45-year-old woman with acute psychotic illness attended Prince of Wales Hospital ED on 4 August 2020 after presenting to police with pe…
38y · Male·Internal haemorrhage complicating large calibre gunshot wounds to the neck
…e head injury in childhood with confirmed organic brain damage, depressive episodes, and untreated mental illness. In the week before his death, he showed increasing evidence of psychotic illness (paranoid ideation, biz…
30y · Male·Acute Cardiac Dysrhythmia of Uncertain Aetiology
…vanni Mario Franco, a 30-year-old man with schizophrenia, died on 10 March 1998 at Graylands Hospital from acute cardiac dysrhythmia of uncertain aetiology. During his final admission in February 1998, he developed seve…
77y · Female·Asphyxia from manual strangulation and smothering
Margaret Nicol Foran, aged 77, was killed by her son while he was experiencing an acute psychotic episode at her home in Launceston, Tasmania, between 22-23 April 2012. The cause of death was as…
52y · Male·multiple organ failure and pulmonary thromboemboli complicating generalised seps…
…undiagnosed heart failure secondary to sleep apnoea. He lacked capacity to consent to treatment due to a psychotic illness and was appropriately placed on an involuntary treatment order. Despite aggressive multispecialt…
64y · Female·fatal cardiac arrhythmia in a lady with obstructed sleep apnoea, obesity and suf…
…year-old woman with bipolar disorder, severe obstructive sleep apnoea, obesity and diabetes presented with acute psychotic relapse following stress and sleep deprivation. Initially admitted to ED where she was sedated w…
59y · Female·Sharp force injuries to the neck
…ursun Yildiz, using a small axe at their home in Dallas, Victoria. The perpetrator had undiagnosed mental illness characterised by delusional beliefs that his life was at risk and auditory hallucinations. No discernible…
69y · Male·Blunt head trauma
…with a sledgehammer in Katherine on 3 December 2013. Osborne was experiencing untreated schizophrenia with acute psychotic symptoms and believed his victim was someone else (Les Pearce). Osborne had been seen in the Kat…
19y · Male·unable to be determined
Nazrawi Woldemichael, a 19-year-old with a history of severe mental illness, traumatic brain injury, suicidal ideation, and substance abuse, disappeared on 9 October 2016 from North…
68y · Female·Hypoxic Ischaemic Encephalopathy as a result of Hanging
A 68-year-old woman with longstanding psychotic illness presented to ED with acute relapse, homicidal ideation toward her husband, and vague suicidal th…
58y · Male·coronary artery arteriosclerosis (natural causes)
…tley Mental Health Unit. He presented to Royal Perth Hospital emergency department on 19 April 2020 with psychotic behaviour but was discharged; his presentation was judged appropriate at the time despite later appearin…
51y · Female·drowning
Laura Golding, a 51-year-old transgender female with longstanding bipolar affective disorder and recent psychotic episodes, died by drowning on 13 October 2017 after taking an unmanned dinghy into Copper Alley Bay with…
Unknown·Mia: Stab wound to heart; Thomas: Stab wound to brain
…ere fatally stabbed at a Queensland hostel on 23 August 2016 by a French backpacker, Smail Ayad, who was psychotic and cannabis-intoxicated. Ayad had displayed paranoid ideation, paranoid schizophrenia, and major depres…
64y · Male·acute myocardial infarction in association with coronary artery atherosclerosis
…nary artery disease, presented to Royal Perth Hospital on 15 December 2023 with an infected foot wound and acute psychosis. Initial troponin elevation was determined to be a false positive (assay interference). He was a…
30y · Male·unascertained
Bayden Quilkey, 30, died from unascertained causes on 13 March 2008 during an acute psychotic episode while being restrained by police. He had recently moved from Queensland showing signs of…
28y · Male·Global cerebral ischaemic injury due to hanging
Rahul Prasad, a remanded prisoner with a serious psychotic condition and documented suicide risk, was discharged from the Acute Assessment Unit on 7 May 2010 with …
36y · Female·Effects of fire and stab wounds (Kylie Fowler); effects of fire (Melanie Maher);…
…hildren (Samantha 18, Melanie 13, Matthew 11) and herself by stabbing and fire on 9 January 2011 during an acute psychotic episode. Critical system failures included: no confirmation that Ms Fowler engaged with her GP a…
48y · Male·shotgun wound to the head
A 48-year-old Yolngu man with chronic mental illness (schizophrenia) died from a shotgun wound to the head on Elcho Island, NT in April 1990. After spearing t…
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