1Associate Professor, Forensic Medicine, Pacific Medical College & Hospital, Pratapura, Udaipur, Rajasthan
2Junior Specialist, Forensic Medicine, Baba Tula Ram Hospital, New Delhi
3Professor, Forensic Medicine, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi
Online published on 3 March, 2017.
Shock has been attributed as the cause of death in many cases due to its vast nature and physiopathology. Shock, haemorrhage and shock, hypovolumic shock, neurogenic shock, and vaso-vagal shock all are used to describe the cause of death in both natural and un-natural deaths. Neurogenic shock or pain remains as expressed or hidden major or minor component of cause of death from injury in many cases, where death occurs within few hours. The present authors havepresented a case of death where a middle aged army man, otherwise healthy and supposed to be more resistant to pain, died due to severe pain from acute appendicitis.
Shock, Neurogenic shock, Pain, Appendicitis, Cause of death
