Pattern of Medico-legal Cases in the Casualty Department of A Teaching Hospital, Bareilly, Uttar-Pradesh
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https://doi.org/10.48165/Keywords:
Medico-legal cases, Pattern, Road Traffic Accident, Season, Casualty departmentAbstract
Casualty department is the Heart of any hospital and is an important key area because most of medical and surgical emergencies and almost all medico-legal cases first reported here. It is the duty of first attending doctor to prepare report of all the medico-legal case with all required guidelines. Considering the importance of this work this retrospective study was conducted to analyze the pattern and magnitude of all the medico-legal cases registered in the casualty department of SRMS IMS Medical College Bareilly between January-December 2014. This study revealed that RTA constituted majority (64.39%) of medico-legal cases followed by poisoning (17.80%) and fall from height (3.79%). Majority of cases were male (81.44%). The most of the cases were in the age group 21-30 years (30.68%). The most of cases were reported in casualty between 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. (35.61%) followed by 6 p.m. to 12 a.m. (35.23%). The maximum case were reported in November (17.05%) followed by July (12.5%). The most of cases reported in Rainy season (July-October) (38.64%) followed by winter (34.85%).
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