{"id":7267,"date":"2017-09-07T17:52:17","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T12:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicosplexus.com\/?p=7267"},"modified":"2017-09-07T17:52:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T12:22:17","slug":"you-cant-expect-doctors-to-subject-every-patient-coming-with-chest-pain-to-advanced-cardiac-investigations-when-ecg-is-normal-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicosplexus.com\/you-cant-expect-doctors-to-subject-every-patient-coming-with-chest-pain-to-advanced-cardiac-investigations-when-ecg-is-normal-court\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can’t expect Doctors to subject every patient coming with chest pain to advanced cardiac investigations, when ECG is normal : Court"},"content":{"rendered":"
You Can’t expect Doctors to subject every patient coming with chest pain to advanced cardiac investigations, when ECG is normal : Court<\/p>\n
For all latest Medical jobs\u00a0Click here<\/a><\/p>\n MANDAR JADHAV V\/.s DR. RIYA & ORS.CONSUMER CASE NO. 109 OF 2011.<\/p>\n Facts in short :
\n1. The Wife of the Complainant (since deceased), was under the treatment of a Gynecologist. The Gynecologist advised to go to KEM Hospital Mumbai for cardiac check-up.
\n2. The patient also had the history of Chest Pain\/Epigastria, Hypertension and 9 months Amenorrhea. In the Hospital An ECG was performed and primary treatment for Acidity and Gastric disorder was given and she was again asked to come to hospital after 2 days.
\n3. After 2 days when she came to Hospital at about 11 am and she was declared dead at 03:10 pm on next day.
\n4. The post mortem report would show that at KEM Hospital, her ECG & Obstetrics USG were normal but she collapsed all of a sudden & cause of death was assigned to consequence of Aortic Dissection.
\n5. It was alleged that when the gynecologist referred the patient for Cardiac problem, she should have been subjected to extensive cardiac evaluation to rule out a Coronary Artery Disease (CAD). She should not have been discharged at the first instance and hence all the Doctors are negligent.
\n6. The Doctors refuted all the allegations followed the universally accepted protocol in the treatment of the wife of the complainant. It was further condended that the death was natural due to consequence of Aortic Dissection in the patient taken up for delivery for the use of Prostaglandins.<\/p>\n