[Liver and splenic ruptures as a complication of heart pressure massage].

UNLABELLED

Injuries of the abdominal organs, especially liver and spleen, which were caused by resuscitative measures, can occasionally raise problems if an expert opinion on death is obtained particularly with regard to previous traumatization and if the question arises whether the trauma could have been avoided or not. These questions will be discussed from different points of view by means of ten cases.

RESULT

Even when lege-artis-cardiac massage is made, the above mentioned complications cannot always be avoided. In none of the ten cases the trauma caused by resuscitative measures was the cause of concomitant cause of fatal outcome.