Sudden Slap: Sudden Death

Abstract

A female unconscious patient aged about 72 years brought to the Govt. General Hospital of  Rangaraya Medical College, Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh with a history of slap over the cheek. After  examination by causality doctors, declared dead. Body was send to the mortuary same hospital. This was  the result of a petty quarrel between two persons for theft of mangoes, into which this old lady entered.  She got a slap on her cheek. Suddenly she fell down and found dead. Autopsy was conducted on  06/08/2014, in the same hospital’s after receiving all necessary documents from the police people. On  examination, there were no external and internal injuries found. With no positive post-mortem findings  and presence of history of slap over cheek indicating that it is a case of sudden death due to vaso-vagal  shock which occurred by stimulation of baroreceptors situated at the level of angle of mandible.