Medico-Legal Update
  • Year: 2011
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue: 1

Fatal cardiogenic shock after electroconvulsive therapy: A case report

  • Author:
  • Manish Shrigiriwar, Rajesh Bardale

* Dept. of Forensic Medicine, Indira Gandhi Govt. Medical College, Nagpur.

** Dept. of Forensic Medicine, Govt. Medical College, Nagpur.

Abstract

Modified electroconvulsive therapy is relatively safe procedure and on most of the instances, morbidity and mortality is related to cardiovascular complications. We report a case of fatal cardiogenic shock after electroconvulsive therapy.

Keywords

cardiogenic shock, electroconvulsive therapy, death