212 results for “involuntary psychiatric admission”
62y · Female·hyponatremia (low sodium level 114mmol/L) resulting in seizure, with aspiration …
…chizophrenia died from hyponatremia (sodium level 114mmol/L) resulting in seizure and aspiration during involuntary psychiatric admission. She had been on escitalopram (SSRI) for depression and was admitted after refusi…
67y · Male·Hypertensive cardiomegaly and ischaemic heart disease
…was arrested after making threats at Federal Police offices. He was admitted involuntarily to John Cade Psychiatric Unit under the Mental Health Act 1986. On admission, psychiatry certified him as involuntary and admini…
51y · Male·unascertained
…no evidence of cardiac complications from antipsychotic use. The case highlights challenges in managing involuntary psychiatric patients with poor medication compliance and the limitations of forensic pathology in some …
Unknown·Electrocution
…tinue caring for his wife EG, who had chronic paranoid schizophrenia managed without medication despite psychiatric care. Concerned about EG facing involuntary psychiatric admission after his death, JB arranged electric…
27y · Female·Ligature compression of neck (hanging)
…later. The coroner found death by suicide. This case highlights risks associated with granting leave to involuntary psychiatric patients with active suicidal ideation and the importance of appropriate supervision and ri…
53y · Female·Unable to determine; circumstances suggest death by suicide but body never recov…
…ela Joy Jeffrey, a 53-year-old woman with a long history of depression managed with antidepressants and psychiatric care, disappeared on 1 June 2016 from Bakers Beach, Tasmania. She had experienced a significant mood de…
61y · Female·Complications of pulmonary thromboembolism secondary to deep vein thrombosis
…ear-old Vietnamese woman died from pulmonary thromboembolism secondary to deep vein thrombosis while an involuntary psychiatric patient. She had been admitted following a suicide attempt and was placed on an Assessment …
64y · Male·unascertained natural causes
Ralph Keat, a 64-year-old man with frontal lobe dementia, was admitted to Kingston Centre as an involuntary mental health patient on 12 April 2010. On 14 April, he was found unresponsive in the bathroom and coul…
43y · Male·Multiple injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident (driver)
…idal ideation and sleep deprivation. His GP declined benzodiazepines and attempted to arrange voluntary psychiatric admission, which he refused. Police conducted a welfare check but determined he did not meet criteria f…
45y · Male·Coronary Atherosclerosis
…diac risk factors (hypertension, diabetes, obesity, smoking), died of coronary atherosclerosis while an involuntary psychiatric patient at Graylands Hospital. He presented to Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 11 days before…
25y · Male·consistent with drowning in a man with multiple injuries
Warren Guneratne, a 25-year-old man with paranoid schizophrenia, was admitted involuntarily to the psychiatric unit of Royal Melbourne Hospital on 28 January 2008 after assessment by the Crisis Assessment and Treat…
Female·Multiple injuries
…lusional disorder who died in a motor vehicle collision on 6 December 2010 while on approved leave from psychiatric hospitalisation. She was an involuntary patient in Albany Hospital's mental health unit. The coroner fo…
24y · Female·Ligature compression injury to the neck (hanging)
…19 April 2006, nine days after absconding from Fremantle Hospital's Alma Street Clinic where she was an involuntary psychiatric patient. She had been admitted on 3 April 2006 with psychosis secondary to substance abuse.…
51y · Female·Pulmonary thromboembolism in the setting of morbid obesity
…epression, bipolar disorder and recent diabetes diagnosis, died from pulmonary thromboembolism while an involuntary psychiatric inpatient. She presented with leg pain and swelling in May 2014; ultrasound was technically…
21y · Male·Acute hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy and pneumonia in a man with recent trauma…
…e) after orthopaedic surgery for a wrist fracture sustained while intoxicated. Carroll had a documented psychiatric history including recent involuntary mental health admission (discharged 27 May 2007) for attempted sui…
47y · Female·Ligature compression of the neck (suicide by hanging)
…ideation, even those deemed voluntary patients. The decision to maintain her as a voluntary rather than involuntary patient despite expressed suicidal intent warrants review. Early warning signs of imminent risk—such as…
48y · Male·unascertained
…acquired brain injury from cerebral malaria, died unexpectedly in hospital on 31 December 2018 while an involuntary psychiatric patient. He had untreated obstructive sleep apnoea and obesity hypoventilation syndrome dia…
78y · Male·Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm
…n with coronary artery disease and hypertension died from a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm while an involuntary psychiatric inpatient. He had presented with late-onset psychosis and benzodiazepine dependence. During…
54y · Female·unascertained
…54-year-old woman with severe anorexia nervosa and major depression, absconded from Rockingham Hospital psychiatric unit on 3 October 2017 during an escorted walk in hospital grounds. She had been an involuntary patient…
32y · Female·Bilateral haemothoraces with multiple rib fractures and fracture dislocation of …
… intoxicated with suicidal and homicidal ideation. Despite known flight risk (attempted fence scaling on admission day), she absconded on 18 February. She was found in Goornong on 19 February and, while attempting to fl…
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