Postmortem evaluation of death in an inoperable case of ischaemic enterits with focal infarction

Now-a-days, medical profession is facing with repeated allegations of medical negligence; hence the doctors ought to be very careful in treating the patients and also in giving agreeable explanation in case of death to the public. Here is a case of a 6 years old, male, Muslim boy brought to the department of forensic medicine, Rangaraya Medical College, Kakinada with the cause of death as severe shock, secondary to abdominal colic as per the treating paediatric surgeon. The parents and relatives alleged negligence by the treating doctors as the child was brought with the complaints of pain abdomen, vomiting and loose motion and if he was operated at an early time, definitely he might be survived with a false belief of pain abdomen due to appendicitis. Clinical correlation, postmortem findings and histopathological findings revealed the cause of death was due to ischaemic enteritis with focal infarction - whether amounted to medical negligence as alleged by parents.