157 results for “chronic psychosis”
84y · Female·sepsis and cardiac failure in a woman with hypertensive ischaemic and valvular h…
…na Playford, an 84-year-old woman with extensive medical comorbidities including ischaemic heart disease, chronic renal failure, and severe biventricular dysfunction, died of sepsis and cardiac failure. She was admitted…
69y · Male·plastic bag asphyxia and mixed drug toxicity (oxycodone and pentobarbitone)
…e) while under home detention bail with electronic monitoring. He had a complex medical history including chronic obstructive airways disease, chronic pain, depression, and recent psychiatric assessment revealing parano…
25y · Male·gastro-intestinal haemorrhage due to erosive gastritis in association with acute…
…10 February 2002 from gastro-intestinal haemorrhage due to erosive gastritis in association with acute-on-chronic amphetamine toxicity. He had consumed a large dose of methylamphetamine (3.9 mg/L blood level), which cau…
48y · Female·Chronic Obstructive Airway Disease
Margret Lillian Harris, aged 48, died of chronic obstructive airway disease while detained under the Mental Health Act at Royal Adelaide Hospital. She had…
64y · Male·hypoxic encephalopathy, secondary to cardiac arrest, secondary to myocardial inf…
A 64-year-old man with paranoid psychosis, poorly controlled diabetes, ischaemic heart disease, atrial fibrillation, congestive cardiac failure, a…
33y · Male·Gunshot wound to the head
A 33-year-old man with paranoid schizophrenia, polysubstance dependence (amphetamines/cannabis), and chronic suicidal ideation died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. He had been prescribed risperidon…
44y · Male·multiple injuries from fall from cliff
…44-year-old man with familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) and bipolar affective disorder with drug-induced psychosis died following a fall from a cliff at Vaucluse during a police rescue operation. He had been managing se…
44y · Male·Unascertained; presumed exposure
…year-old man with significant medical comorbidities including rheumatic heart disease, diabetes, organic psychosis and seizure disorder, disappeared from Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia on 28 January 2018. He had be…
54y · Male·Decompensated liver failure complicating advanced cirrhosis on a background of c…
Shane Reginald Lockley, aged 54, died from decompensated liver failure due to advanced cirrhosis and chronic alcohol dependence. He had a long history of alcohol abuse, intellectual impairment, and was under guardi…
44y · Female·Dilated cardiomyopathy
…stody to The Park Centre for Mental Health in January 2009. She received psychiatric treatment for acute psychosis and appropriate general medical care for her comorbidities. On 29 January 2009, she was found deceased i…
80y · Male·asphyxia due to choking on food
Robert Mather, 80, died from asphyxia due to choking on food while hospitalised with acute psychosis, severe malnutrition, iron deficiency anaemia and urinary retention. He had schizophrenia with 40+ year …
58y · Male·Gastrointestinal haemorrhage due to erosive gastritis
…ce 1992, following a severe head injury sustained in a motor vehicle accident in 1970. This injury caused chronic brain damage and progressive mental health deterioration requiring lifelong institutional care. In April …
33y · Female·Hypoxic brain injury secondary to plastic bag asphyxia
Jodi McPaul, a 33-year-old woman with long-standing schizophrenia and chronic suicide risk, was admitted involuntarily to Frankston Hospital on 29 March 2007. Despite psychiatric team…
41y · Male·unascertained
David Davidson Lawson, a 41-year-old Aboriginal man with chronic alcohol use disorder and a history of psychotic symptoms during withdrawal, disappeared from a remote hom…
38y · Male·The combined effect of Methylamphetamine Toxicity and prolonged restraint in a p…
Jason Rea, a 38-year-old chronic methamphetamine user, died following a high-speed collision on the M1 Freeway while driving under the inf…
23y · Male·Haemorrhage from incised wounds to the neck and wrists
…history including childhood domestic violence exposure, paternal heroin overdose witnessed as a teenager, chronic substance use disorder with drug-induced psychosis, and recent suicide loss of a close friend. Despite po…
34y · Male·multiple injuries
…nt. The coroner found psychiatric care appropriate and in line with best practice. Key lesson: suicide in chronic schizophrenia is inherently unpredictable despite structured follow-up; clinicians appropriately relied o…
48y · Female·Combined effects of cardiac hypertrophy, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease a…
KD, a 48-year-old woman with chronic schizo-affective disorder, end-stage renal failure, COPD, cardiac hypertrophy and obesity, died from comb…
48y · Male·unascertained
Abdurahman Faid, a 48-year-old man with chronic schizophrenia and acquired brain injury from cerebral malaria, died unexpectedly in hospital on 31 Decemb…
42y · Male·unascertained
… a 42-year-old Aboriginal man with long-standing mental health problems, alcohol and drug dependency, and chronic suicidality, disappeared in November 2006 and is presumed deceased. In the month before disappearance, he…
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