26 results for “probable depression”
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 …
45y · Male·mixed drug toxicity
…lenn Sturley Meyer, aged 45, died from mixed drug toxicity on 22 August 2019. He had chronic pain, PTSD, depression and anxiety managed with oxycodone and diazepam. He also had obesity and probable obstructive sleep apno…
69y · Female·Complications of a probable bowel malignancy
… woman with schizophrenia, intellectual disability, and multiple comorbidities died from complications of probable bowel malignancy. In October 2014, regional lymphadenopathy and bowel thickening were identified; colonos…
49y · Male·Probable suicide by drowning; medical cause of death unable to be determined in …
Barry Scott Collins, a 49-year-old Deputy City Engineer in Warrnambool, Victoria, disappeared on 8 December 1988 after leaving home for a walk at 12:15am. The coroner found he is deceased, likely by suicide, though his r…
48y · Male·Drowning
A 48-year-old man with depression, problematic alcohol use, and recent onset paranoid ideation and auditory hallucinations presented twice…
42y · Male·drowning
…ania, on 25 January 2014. He had a long history of substance abuse and mental health problems, including depression and bipolar affective disorder. Days before his death, he was discharged from psychiatric care at Launce…
29y · Female·Effects of multiple injuries sustained when she projected herself from the top o…
… Dragun, a 29-year-old newsreader, died by suicide at The Gap on 2 November 2007. She was diagnosed with depression and treated with escalating doses of antidepressants (Efexor, then Lexapro) by multiple health professio…
89y · Female·acute renal failure with severe electrolyte disturbance due to sigmoid volvulus …
… for management of aggressive behaviour secondary to dementia. On 26 October 2008, an intern identified a probable sigmoid volvulus on imaging and arranged surgical review. The patient deteriorated rapidly, became unresp…
40y · Male·carbon monoxide poisoning
A 40-year-old male sex offender on community-based orders died by carbon monoxide poisoning on 24 August 2009, two days after a serious suicide attempt involving his car. He had been assessed at Frankston Hospital ED on …
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…
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…
63y · Female·Combined features of bronchopneumonia, emphysema and ischaemic heart disease on …
A 63-year-old woman with depression, anxiety, liver cirrhosis, and chronic drug use died from bronchopneumonia, emphysema, and ischaemic hea…
80y · Male·Drowning
An 80-year-old man with severe depression, suicidal ideation, and probable vascular dementia died by drowning after leaving a psychiatric ward. He…
36y · Male·Gunshot wound to chest
Adam Quddus Salter, aged 36, experienced acute psychiatric decompensation on 18 November 2009 while living at his family home. After stabbing himself multiple times, paramedics and police were called. While paramedics tr…
85y · Male·Probable pneumonia following a hip fracture (comminuted fracture of right acetab…
Richard Weily, 85, with Lewy-body dementia, Parkinson's disease, and cardiac disease, was admitted to Roy Fagan Centre (RFC) mental health facility on 13 June 2013 under Mental Health Act provisions for management of acu…
36y · Male·morphine toxicity
A 36-year-old man with morbid obesity, possible sleep apnoea, and respiratory symptoms died from morphine toxicity after taking three 100mg MS Contin tablets within 6 hours, despite being opioid-naïve. He presented to ED…
36y · Male·Combined effect of gunshot wounds to the chest and abdomen
Paul Lambert, 36, was shot by NSW Police on the Pacific Highway after attacking and stabbing his former girlfriend Dr J. multiple times. He had a longstanding pattern of intimate partner violence, stalking, emotional abu…
27y · Male·compression of the neck due to hanging
…is as 'first episode psychosis' was erroneous; longitudinal history showed likely relapsed psychosis with probable bipolar disorder. After discharge, psychiatric care was fragmented with poor communication between servic…
15y · Male·ligature compression of the neck (hanging)
Aboriginal child in out-of-home care died by hanging following relationship breakdown. He experienced foetal alcohol spectrum disorder, early trauma and neglect, and 34 different living arrangements. Despite specialist m…
39y · Male·Self-inflicted death by hanging
A 39-year-old man with longstanding Bipolar I Disorder died by hanging on 28 December 2017, shortly after police attended a domestic disturbance at his mother's home. He had expressed suicidal ideation to his treating ps…
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