Medicolegal Evaluation of the Case of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) Lead Fracture Due to Domestic Violence
Makaleler > Tam Makale · 2020
Yazarlar: Ahsen KAYA, Cemil ÇELİK, Hülya GÜLER, Ender ŞENOL, Ekin Özgür AKTAŞ
Düzce Tıp Fakültesi Dergisi, Uluslararası, Scopus, 2020, cilt 22, ss 134-136
DOI: 10.18678/dtfd.729969
Özet
There has been an increase in sudden cardiac death in recent years. Lately, implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is a device which is used to prevent sudden cardiac death. Some problems may occur in the device as a result of trauma. Lead fracture constitutes one of these problems. In the literature, blunt trauma-related ICD complications, particularly lead fracture, seem to be very rare. In this case report, we evaluated a female patient who was exposed to a blunt trauma while getting pulled her left arm by her ex-husband and to some inappropriate shocks due to lead fracture, in medicolegal aspect. In case, a lead fracture occurred by pulling her left arm without chest trauma. It is aimed to take importance that even a mild violence might cause life-threating, severe clinical outcome.