A Retrospective Study of Postmortem Examinations at MGM Hospital, Warangal
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https://doi.org/10.48165/jiafm.2024.46.2.7Keywords:
Unnatural deaths, Poisoning, Hanging, Head injury, Multiple injuries, BurnsAbstract
An autopsy (post mortem examination) or necropsy is a common, up-to-date medical technique in which the tissues and organs of a deceasedperson'sbodyarethoroughlyexaminedsurgicallywiththegoalofidentifyingthecauseofdeathandanycontributingfactors.Now a days poisoning and road traffic accidents cause most of the casualties, which lead to many deaths. To create a profile of fatalities brought on by unnatural sources that we can focus our efforts on reducing their frequency, we retrospectively studied the death cases brought for medico legal postmortem examination at the Mortuary, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology at Kakatiya Medical College/MGM Hospital Warangal, Telangana, India, in the year 2019 to 2021. During this period, a total of 4657 autopsy cases were conducted. Themost autopsy cases [443(10%)] out of the total 4657 cases were performed in June. There were [3516(75.5%)] more male cases than female [1141(24.5%)] cases, which predominated. The largest percentage of cases [2868(62%)] belonged to the 25–54 age range. There were mostly 1644 (35%) cases of poisoning. Injury-related deaths, 988 (21%) and 557 (12%) were attributable to head injuries and multiple injuries respectively. 485 deaths by hanging (10%) and 253 deaths from thermal injury (5%) were reported. Poisoning was found to be the most common cause of mortality, and then followed by road-traffic accidents. Vehicle accidents involving head injuries were the leading cause of death.
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