35 results for “agitation and behavioural disturbance”
62y · Female·general inanition on a background of end-stage dementia
…r's dementia whilst subject to a Mental Health Act Inpatient Treatment Order. She presented with severe behavioural disturbance, agitation, and refusal of oral intake. Her care at both Flinders Medical Centre and Repatr…
80y · Male·bilateral pulmonary thromboembolism
…ia was detained under the Mental Health Act at Howard House (Hillcrest Hospital) for confusion, aggression, and behavioural disturbance. He died three days after admission from bilateral pulmonary thromboembolism associ…
45y · Male·Blood loss due to multiple self-inflicted incised injuries
Karim Aarras, a 45-year-old man with longstanding mental health issues, chronic pain, and substance use disorder (methamphetamine), presented to police in…
78y · Female·advanced dementia (end stage)
…14 following non-Hodgkin's lymphoma treatment. After admission to RGH on 23 August 2017 with escalating behavioural disturbances including agitation, aggression, and falls, she was placed on an Inpatient Treatment Order…
87y · Male·aspiration pneumonia, urinary tract infection and general inanition complicating…
…on, 87 years old with advanced Alzheimer's dementia, died of aspiration pneumonia, urinary tract infection, and general inanition. He was admitted to hospital multiple times in 2015 with behavioural disturbance, agitati…
75y · Male·pneumonia and head injury from fall
Peter Harris, aged 75, was admitted with behavioural disturbance and hyponatraemia (low serum sodium of 124 mmol/L). Initial clinical assessment did not ide…
79y · Male·myocardial infarction
…zheimer's dementia at Noarlunga Hospital. He presented with cognitive decline following his partner's death and developed agitated, paranoid behaviour requiring sedation with benzodiazepines and antipsychotics. He suffe…
76y · Female·infective exacerbation of chronic congestive cardiac failure due to Respiratory …
…us. She presented with multifactorial respiratory distress complicated by advanced dementia, schizophrenia, and behavioural disturbance. She was placed on an Inpatient Treatment Order due to risk to self and others when…
84y · Male·general inanition on a background of end-stage dementia and a fractured neck of …
…r sustained while under a Level 2 Inpatient Treatment Order. He was admitted in January 2019 with confusion and agitation in extreme heat, requiring sedation and restraint. On 28 March 2019, he fell while sitting on a b…
90y · Male·aspiration pneumonia, vascular dementia, ischaemic heart disease, congestive car…
… aspiration pneumonia complicated by vascular dementia, ischaemic heart disease, congestive cardiac failure and chronic renal failure whilst a resident at the Roy Fagan Centre under a guardianship order. He had experien…
42y · Female·pneumonia with diffuse alveolar damage in the setting of mixed drug toxicity (Ba…
Allyson Bailey, a 42-year-old woman with complex polysubstance use disorder and borderline personality disorder, died from pneumonia with diffuse alveolar damage complicated by mixed drug…
97y · Male·respiratory failure attributed to aspiration pneumonia on a background of advanc…
…to aspiration pneumonia on a background of advanced dementia, a surgically repaired neck of femur fracture, and gastrointestinal haemorrhage. He was admitted to hospital in late September 2019 with behavioural changes a…
91y · Female·exacerbation of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia following sur…
Shirley Dorothy Dawn Martin, an 91-year-old with advanced Alzheimer's disease and multiple comorbidities, sustained a hip fracture from an unwitnessed fall at an aged care facility on 8 Aug…
54y · Female·malignant melanoma with brain metastases
…es while detained under a Mental Health Act order at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. She had undergone surgery and radiotherapy for melanoma that had spread to lymph nodes. During radiotherapy, she developed confusion and …
60y · Female·Focal pneumonia in a woman with emphysema and ischaemic heart disease
A 60-year-old woman with long-standing schizophrenia/bipolar disorder, emphysema, and ischaemic heart disease died of focal pneumonia at Grayla…
93y · Female·Catastrophic subdural haemorrhage resulting from head strike sustained in a witn…
Dayle Patricia Weldon, a 93-year-old woman with dementia, fell in the secure suite of an aged care facility and sustained a catastrophic subdural haemorrhage from which she died three days later. The coroner found that …
63y · Male·cerebral infarction
John Arthur Burns, a 63-year-old man with frontotemporal dementia and motor neurone disease, died from cerebral infarction on 17 September 2006 while in Westminster Aged Care Fa…
41y · Male·sympathomimetic syndrome
Andrew Berry, a 41-year-old man with a long history of methamphetamine use and criminal offending, died of symp…
79y · Male·delirium due to aspiration pneumonia complicating advanced metastatic non-small …
A 79-year-old man with metastatic lung cancer suffered multiple strokes causing confusion and behavioural disturbance. He was detained under Mental Health Act. On the night shift, nursing staff found h…
57y · Male·Pneumonia with contributing factors of trisomy 21 and early Alzheimer's dementia
Graham Keith Moore, a 57-year-old man with Down syndrome and early Alzheimer's dementia, died of pneumonia at Bendigo Hospital on 11 February 2025. He resided in specia…
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