499 results for “psychiatric illness”
57y · Male·multiple injuries from motor vehicle collision
… under a Community Treatment Order. After failing a clinic appointment on 13 January, staff noted acute psychiatric symptoms (incoherence, rapid speech) and the CTO was revoked, making him liable for detention. He was n…
36y · Male·Hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy due to cardiac arrest occurring during restrain…
…a homeowner. The deceased had entered the homeowner's house without permission while experiencing acute psychiatric symptoms (paranoia, delusions) likely triggered by amphetamine use. He had signs of undiagnosed mental …
37y · Female·Drowning
Nicole McCarroll, a 37-year-old woman with a significant psychiatric history including depression and previous suicide attempts, died by drowning on 22 January 2010. She ha…
48y · Male·Anaplastic astrocytoma
Robert Przychodski, a 48-year-old man with longstanding psychiatric illness, intellectual disability, epilepsy and a progressive anaplastic astrocytoma, died in the Werrib…
17y · Female·Hanging
…t from Sri Lanka, died by suicide via hanging on 5 May 2012. She had documented evidence of significant psychiatric distress from March 2012, including self-harm, researched suicide methods, and meticulously planned her…
27y · Male·undetermined
Peter Christofidis, a 27-year-old man with a significant history of mental illness including depression and early schizophrenia, disappeared on 14 March 1983 after driving from his home in…
Female·Multiple injuries sustained when deceased placed herself in front of a moving tr…
…was identified through fingerprint analysis in 2020 as Janice Gaul, a woman with a long history of mental illness including schizophrenia. Gaul had absconded from Cumberland Psychiatric Hospital on 1 July 1988; document…
Unknown·Sally-Anne Wills: multiple stab wounds to the chest; Christopher Polden: single …
…and paranoid ideation following family separation. While insufficient evidence definitively linked mental illness to the attacks, the coroner could not exclude psychiatric illness as a contributing factor. The police sh…
34y · Female·Pulmonary thromboembolism
… thromboembolism on 25 September 2021 while involuntarily detained at Dhulwa Mental Health Unit under a Psychiatric Treatment Order. She had severe, treatment-resistant schizophrenia and was receiving appropriate psychi…
Unknown·Sally-Anne Wills: multiple stab wounds to the chest; Christopher Polden: single …
…e police response. However, the finding notes that Mohammed may have been suffering from an undiagnosed psychiatric illness, including possible hearing of voices and paranoia following his marital separation and loss of…
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…
33y · Female·Hypoxic brain injury secondary to plastic bag asphyxia
…ia and chronic suicide risk, was admitted involuntarily to Frankston Hospital on 29 March 2007. Despite psychiatric team awareness of her vulnerability and previous suicide attempt, she died on 1 May 2007 from asphyxiat…
48y · Male·unascertained
Robb Thomas Lawson, a 48-year-old man with a long history of mental illness including depression, anxiety, paranoia and multiple suicide attempts, disappeared in July 2007 after dec…
84y · Female·unascertained; possible causes include cardiac arrhythmia, myocardial infarction…
An 84-year-old woman with a 50-year history of serious mental illness died suddenly at a psychiatric unit while under involuntary Mental Health Act status. She was found unres…
54y · Male·hanging
…mber 2011. He had chronic pain and opioid dependence managed by general practitioners, and chronic mental illness from a 2001 motor vehicle accident. His GP prescribed varenicline (Champix) for smoking cessation in Febr…
71y · Male·Combined effects of ischaemic and valvular heart disease
…observed physical signs of heart failure (dyspnea, bilateral pitting edema) during home visits. Despite psychiatric assessment confirming severe aortic stenosis with poor prognosis without surgery, the patient refused t…
26y · Male·amylobarbital overdose
…aged 26 at presumed death, disappeared on 31 August 1971 following discharge from St Vincent's Hospital psychiatric unit after treatment for a drug overdose. Unidentified remains found in the Yarra River in 1972 were re…
40y · Male·gunshot wound to head
Trevor Frawley, a 40-year-old man with a history of psychiatric illness and documented suicide risk, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head while attendi…
22y · Male·Hanging
…ssed razor blades and exploited an obvious hanging point. Clinical lessons include: severe chronic mental illness is inadequately managed in custodial settings; inmates with recent psychiatric hospitalization require mo…
42y · Male·Multiple injuries sustained in motor vehicle crash
…ne) on a wet, winding country road at night. The coroner found the crash was accidental. The quality of psychiatric care was reasonable given resource constraints and the patient's autonomous choices, though the decisio…
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