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- Title
Medicolegal Evaluation of the Case of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) Lead Fracture Due to Domestic Violence.
- Authors
KAYA, Ahsen; ÇELİK, Cemil; GÜLER, Hülya; ŞENOL, Ender; AKTAŞ, Ekin Özgür
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
IMPLANTABLE cardioverter-defibrillators; WOUNDS &; injuries; INTIMATE partner violence; MEDICAL equipment reliability
- Publication
Duzce Medical Journal, 2020, Vol 22, Issue 2, p134
- ISSN
1307-671X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18678/dtfd.729969