Sudden Deaths in Psychiatric Patients

Sudden unexplained death in psychiatric in-patients.

Deaths among child and adolescent psychiatric patients.

Of 1,206 patients treated during the period 1970-1980 in a department of child psychiatry in a large city in Sweden 24 (2%) (14 boys and 10 girls) had died by the end of 1981. Twenty-one of these (88%) died of "injuries following external violence and poisoning", of whom 15 (63%) were suicides. Twenty subjects (83%) had grown up in surroundings characterised by one or more psychosocial stress f...

Sudden deaths of Croatian hemodialysis patients in October 2001.

In 2001, there were 2,719 patients with chronic renal failure dialyzed in Croatia. Death rate in this patient group was 10.3%, similar to that in other countries. On October 12, 2001, the Croatian Institute of Public Health received information that four patients unexpectedly died in the dialysis center in Pozega General Hospital in a single day. Within a week, a total of 23 dialysis patients d...

Thirteen Sudden Deaths from Suffocation

I propose in the following paper to give your readers a brief description of 13 deaths due to suffocation, not of poisonous or irrespirable gases which came under my notice during the nine years' medico-legal experience that I have been relating. Race and sex.?These cases occurred in the persons of 4 adult native males, 2 adult native females, 4 native boys, 1 native girl, 1 adult European male...

Sudden Deaths Among Chinese Physicians.

IntroductIon Sudden deaths are always an important topic, which catches physicians and health professionals’ attention. Physicians and clinical scientists have reported their findings of unexpected deaths concerning about infants, children, young athletes, soldiers, adults with chronic diseases, and elderly people in thousands, if not millions of publications.[1,2] However, there are no existin...