475 results for “psychiatric admission”
62y · Female·hyponatremia (low sodium level 114mmol/L) resulting in seizure, with aspiration …
… 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 refusing depot ant…
47y · Male·mixed prescription drug toxicity (quetiapine, olanzapam, lorazepam and diazepam)
…caseworker how many tablets would be needed for overdose. After two emergency department visits without psychiatric admission despite expressing suicidal intent, he sought respite care on 15 October 2018 but was unable …
35y · Male·drowning following combined drug and alcohol intoxication
…r, and alcoholism, died by drowning in his bathtub while intoxicated with alcohol and therapeutic-level psychiatric medications. He had sought hospital admission multiple times in the preceding days and was scheduled fo…
66y · Female·unknown
Claire Winifred Buckler, a 66-year-old voluntary psychiatric patient at Bendigo Psychiatric Facility, disappeared on 11 July 1977 while resident in the Capricornia …
71y · Male·hypoxic brain injury due to hanging
…of major depressive disorder with melancholic features died by hanging on 22 July 2005, three days after admission to a private psychiatric hospital (Belmont) following a medication overdose of uncertain intent. His psy…
51y · Female·Pulmonary thromboembolism in the setting of morbid obesity
…ipolar 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 difficult d…
32y · Female·Mexiletine toxicity
… Hospital with generalised weakness. The neurology team failed to notify her psychiatrist, Dr C., of her admission despite her known psychiatric history and her visibly depressed and anxious presentation immediately pri…
45y · Male·Coronary Atherosclerosis
…ctors (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 death with …
61y · Female·Complications of pulmonary thromboembolism secondary to deep vein thrombosis
…namese 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 Order due to…
68y · Female·Multiple injuries sustained in a fall
…suicide attempts died by jumping from a car park rooftop on 14 April 2015. She had been discharged from psychiatric inpatient care to aged care on 2 March 2015 after a protracted admission. On 2 April 2015, she presente…
62y · Female·Unascertained
…egislation with deteriorating mental state and poor oral intake. During her 7-week acute aged psychiatry admission, she received unilateral electroconvulsive therapy and antipsychotic medications. She was found unrespon…
46y · Female·hypoxic ischaemic brain injury as a result of cardiac arrest following a choking…
Andrea Sewell, a 46-year-old woman with Osmotic Demyelination Syndrome (ODS) and acute psychiatric illness, died from hypoxic brain injury following a choking episode during a meal in a psychiatric inte…
57y · Female·right bronchopneumonia following hypoxic brain damage secondary to cardiac arres…
A 57-year-old woman with chronic schizophrenia and non-insulin dependent diabetes was admitted to a psychiatric ward after detention under the Mental Health Act. She was found in cardiac arrest on 8 December 2001 an…
46y · Male·Coronary artery atherosclerosis
…e monitored and managed appropriately after respiratory depression emerged, he spent ~14 hours awaiting psychiatric admission with delayed registrar assessment. He died from coronary artery atherosclerosis (underlying c…
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…
26y · Female·multiple injuries sustained as a result of being struck by a motor vehicle on th…
…6-year-old woman with schizo-affective disorder, detained under the Mental Health Act, absconded from a psychiatric hospital and was fatally struck by a vehicle on a freeway. Clinical concerns include: (1) inadequate ps…
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…
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…
51y · Male·unascertained
…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 sudden death…
39y · Female·Hypovolaemic shock due to incised injury to the wrist
… with a history of mental health issues and previous suicide attempts was admitted to a high-dependency psychiatric unit following a suicide attempt involving razor blades and medications. She was placed on a Temporary …
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