Question

A person met with an accident and died instantaneously without any injury to heart, brain, stomach or kidney. Which one of the following must be the reason?

• A. Diaphragm got punctured.
• B. Stomach stopped digestion.
• C. Intestine got twisted.
• D. RBCs got coagulated.

Answer 1

The correct option is A Diaphragm got punctured.

Diaphragmatic rupture are not necessarily immediately life-threatening by themselves, but the injuries to the diaphragm commonly occur due to an event which is likely to cause other more severe injuries (such as blunt abdominal trauma, which can lead to a ruptured spleen, which can kill you within minutes). The outcome often depends more on associated injuries than on the diaphragmatic injury itself. Since, the pressure is higher in the abdominal cavity than the chest cavity, rupture of the diaphragm is almost always associated with herniation of abdominal organs into the chest cavity, called as traumatic diaphragmatic hernia. This herniation can interfere with breathing, and blood supply can be cut off to organs, that herniate through the diaphragm causing their damage and leading to immediate death.

Therefore, the correct answer is option A.