Friday 25 November 2011

Emedinews:Insights on Medicolegal issues:Infliction of an injury on human body may precipitate a myocardial infarct

Infliction of an injury on human body may precipitate a myocardial infarct
• The emotional upset produced due to injury, or even the threat of fear of an injury can cause death due to transient hypertension or tachycardia that may precipitate arrhythmia, cerebral or sub-arachnoids bleeding resulting into death
• It has been also seen during postmortem examination that physical effort that damaged a diseased heart when the deceased was performing unaccustomed work led to accidents or other trauma and to the extra physical demands while working with defective equipment.
• A heart attack may occur while a scuffle and fight. The person may sustain simple injury and injury not sufficient to cause death in ordinary course of nature, and the person died due to heart failure.
• This happen due to unusual physical or mental strain precipitating coronary insufficiency.

(Contributed by Dr Sudhir Gupta)

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