106 results for “depression”
85y · Male·hospital acquired pneumonia on a background of metastatic colorectal carcinoma
…ed pneumonia on a background of metastatic colorectal cancer. He was admitted to hospital with psychotic depression, suicidal ideation, and severe malnutrition after two years of depression. A CT scan revealed previously…
71y · Male·Mixed drug toxicity
…ients with multiple comorbidities, chronic pain, and mobility limitations require careful monitoring for depression and suicidality. Regular GP visits did not identify suicide risk. Family members noted concerning statem…
68y · Male·Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP)
…ew regimen with only 2 seizures in the 3 months prior to death. He also had vascular dementia, COPD, and depression. A family member raised concerns about prescribing Keppra given his mental health issues and dementia, b…
86y · Male·pulmonary embolism following deep vein thrombosis
…26 May 2020. He was admitted under a Mental Health Act assessment order following a relapse of psychotic depression at his aged care facility. Clinical examination found no acute cause for his mental deterioration. He wa…
54y · Female·Complications of mixed drug toxicity (opiates, zolpidem, benzodiazepines and dox…
A 54-year-old woman with a history of PTSD, depression and suicidal ideation died from mixed drug toxicity (opiates, zolpidem, benzodiazepines, doxylamine). Sh…
78y · Male·Cerebral infarction and hypoxic brain damage due to the combined effects of isch…
…ns despite new sedating medications. Combination morphine with quetiapine likely exacerbated respiratory depression. The patient rapidly deteriorated with hypoxia, hypotension, and altered consciousness. While opioid tox…
69y · Male·plastic bag asphyxia and mixed drug toxicity (oxycodone and pentobarbitone)
…onitoring. He had a complex medical history including chronic obstructive airways disease, chronic pain, depression, and recent psychiatric assessment revealing paranoid psychosis and neurocognitive decline. Despite appr…
89y · Male·congestive cardiac failure due to ischaemic heart disease and aortic valve steno…
…enosis while detained under the Mental Health Act at Glenside Hospital. He was admitted following severe depression, suicidal ideation, and self-neglect after multiple family bereavements. Six days into admission, he fel…
89y · Female·Aspiration pneumonia complicating electroconvulsive therapy for treatment of psy…
Hilda Berg, 89-year-old woman with depression, psychosis, atrial fibrillation, chronic kidney disease and type 2 diabetes, deteriorated in hospital wi…
72y · Female·Hanging
…ang Ying Xu, a 72-year-old Chinese-speaking woman with severe spinal cord compression, chronic pain, and depression, died by hanging during respite care at an aged care facility. While her depression history and multiple…
75y · Male·Burns
…bstantially elevated suicide risk in the immediate post-diagnosis period, often without warning signs of depression; (2) suicide in older adults is under-recognised because presentation may be atypical and depression und…
87y · Female·heart failure and probable pneumonia in an elderly lady complicated by morphine …
…story, or full clinical picture. The deceased was opioid-naïve, frail, and at high risk from respiratory depression. The morphine caused toxicity with respiratory depression and was potentially lethal. However, the coron…
85y · Female·aspiration of gastric contents following vomiting
…piration of gastric contents following vomiting. She was admitted to the Roy Fagan Centre with psychotic depression and was under a Mental Health Act treatment order. During the week before death, she developed gastroint…
77y · Female·Airways obstruction by tissue paper
A 77-year-old woman with depression, anxiety, and chronic pain died from airway obstruction by tissue paper at an aged care facility. She ha…
55y · Female·Plastic bag suffocation
…ison Copeland, aged 55, died by plastic bag suffocation after living with severe physical disability and depression since suffering a subarachnoid haemorrhage in 1995. She had made multiple suicide attempts over 16 years…
75y · Female·exacerbation of end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Judith Beverley O'Leary, 75-year-old woman with end-stage COPD, dementia, depression and multiple comorbidities, died from exacerbation of COPD with secondary respiratory tract infection. S…
91y · Female·Unascertained
Margaret Smith, a 91-year-old admitted with head strike from fall, developed moderate depression during her stay and received electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) as a compulsory patient. On 5 March 2015, s…
84y · Male·Gunshot wound to the head
Raymond John Cox, an 84-year-old man with Alzheimer's disease, depression, and cognitive decline, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. His wife had approached po…
64y · Male·Large pulmonary embolus (origin undetermined)
…ied of pulmonary embolus at Leeton District Hospital following a complex admission involving psychiatric depression, atrial fibrillation, urinary retention, and multiple comorbidities. The coroner identified significant …
73y · Female·neck compression by ligature
…strangulation in a closed psychiatric ward at Glenside Hospital. She had chronic pain since a 2002 fall, depression, and histrionic personality disorder. Two days before her death, she told her son she would be 'found de…
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