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Pulmonary Embolism as a Cause of Death in Psychiatric Inpatients: a Case Series

Author(s) -

ChienChung Lee,

Regina Fung,

SW Pang,

TL Lo

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

east asian archives of psychiatry

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2224-7041

pISSN - 2078-9947

DOI - 10.12809/eaap1837

Subject(s) - pulmonary embolism , medicine , autopsy , antipsychotic , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , embolism , psychiatry , cause of death , emergency medicine , disease

We report four cases of fatal pulmonary embolism confirmed by autopsy among inpatients in a Hong Kong psychiatric hospital from 2010 to 2014. None of the four patients had a medical or premorbid condition associated with vascular thromboembolism or causing prolonged immobilisation. Only two patients were taking long-term antipsychotic medication, but all were physically restrained shortly before the event.

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