228 results for “depression”
44y · Male·Hypoxic brain injury secondary to heroin and alcohol toxicity
…om hypoxic brain injury caused by heroin and alcohol toxicity following an overdose. He had a history of depression, financial difficulties, and prior heroin use. After collapsing at a friend's home, he was resuscitated …
55y · Female·exsanguination due to a gunshot wound to the upper left chest
A 55-year-old woman with a 20-year history of depression died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. She had attempted suicide twice in 2019 (July and December) an…
36y · Male·Global hypoxic brain injury due to hanging
…gnificant behavioral changes: withdrawal, irritability, anger, and sleep difficulty. He had a history of depression in 2010 but was assessed as depression-free before varenicline prescription. On the day of death, he had…
76y · Male·exsanguination secondary to pulmonary aortic fistula and thoracic aorta aneurysm…
Allan Phipps was a 76-year-old man with a known thoracic aortic aneurysm and severe depression admitted to Austin Hospital in October 2012 for unstable angina and depression management. His aneurysm,…
79y · Male·multi-organ failure due to voluntary starvation on a background of severe depres…
…79-year-old man died from multi-organ failure secondary to voluntary starvation in the context of severe depression following his wife's death. He was admitted after police found him malnourished following 30 days of int…
56y · Male·hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy following insulin and benzodiazepine overdose
A 56-year-old man with depression, known to close friends but not formally disclosed to healthcare providers, deliberately ingested temaze…
16y · Male·Complications of acute alcohol intoxication
…ous on an outdoor couch. Clinical lessons: acute alcohol intoxication in young people causes respiratory depression and airway compromise risk; loud snoring during unconsciousness indicates severe CNS depression requirin…
37y · Female·Multiple drug toxicity
…creasing confusion and dazed appearance. On 20 October 2018, she was found unresponsive with respiratory depression, suffered hypoxic brain injury despite resuscitation, and was declared brain dead. The Coroner's Prevent…
54y · Male·Methadone use in a man with asthma and sarcoidosis of the lungs
Wayne Marshall, a 54-year-old registered nurse, died from respiratory depression caused by methadone use in the context of underlying asthma and pulmonary sarcoidosis. He was found gasp…
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…
29y · Male·Incised injury to the neck
… a neck laceration sustained during acute behavioural disturbance in August 2018. He had diagnosed major depression with anxiety, prescribed mirtazapine but attended only two psychology sessions. In the weeks before deat…
43y · Male·Pneumonia
…ervations ceased after 10 December. He was found unresponsive at 12:20pm on 11 December with respiratory depression. Post-mortem confirmed pneumonia with combined toxic drug effects and psychiatric illness as contributin…
70y · Male·aspiration pneumonia due to seizures
70-year-old man with insulin-dependent diabetes, cognitive impairment, depression, alcohol abuse history, and seizure disorder died from aspiration pneumonia following seizures while adm…
37y · Male·hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy secondary to hanging
A 37-year-old man with depression, suicidal ideation, and antisocial personality disorder died from hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy follo…
50y · Male·Hypoxic ischaemic brain injury in the context of hanging
A 50-year-old man with longstanding depression, anxiety, and ADHD died by hanging after an acute deterioration in mental state. He had previous psychia…
38y · Female·Hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy due to cardiorespiratory arrest caused by mixed…
…e had difficulty self-injecting due to poor venous access. She had longstanding intravenous drug use and depression. Clinically, this case highlights: (1) the vulnerability of patients with difficult venous access to rel…
33y · Male·Respiratory failure due to mixed drug toxicity (amitriptyline, oxycodone, morphi…
A 33-year-old man with chronic back pain, depression, morbid obesity and sleep apnoea died in psychiatric custody from respiratory failure due to mixed drug …
Male·Gunshot wound to chest (Aleksander Stefanovic); gunshot wound to head (AD)
…the deaths of two males at their shared Lewisham home on 4 September 2020. AD (aged 55), with documented depression, anxiety and recent suicidal ideation, shot his flatmate Aleksander Stefanovic (aged 36, recently commen…
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…
36y · Male·Hypoxic/ischaemic encephalopathy and hanging
…rning includes recognition of acute mental health crisis in patients with polysubstance abuse, untreated depression, and multiple stressors. Early psychiatric assessment and crisis intervention when suicidal intent is ex…
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