Citation

Kumar U, Vijay Kumar AG, Satish NT. Med. Legal Update 2017; 17(2): 1-3.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, R.K. Sharma and Institute of Medico-Legal Publications)

DOI

10.5958/0974-1283.2017.00056.1

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Drowning is a form of asphyxia due to the process of experiencing respiratory impairment from submersion/immersion in liquid. Materials and Method: In this retrospective study, all the fatal drowning cases that were subjected to postmortem from the period January 1st 2012 to December 31st 2015 were analyzed at the Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Adichunchanagiri Institute of Medical Sciences, B G Nagara, and Karnataka.

RESULTS and Discussion: In this current study, maximum number of fatal drowning was seen among 20 to 40 years age group and male to female ratio is 2.1:1. Accidental drowning was reported in 10 cases and suicidal drowning was seen in 29 cases of fatal drowning. Manner of death could not be found out in 10 cases of drowning due to lack of identity of the body and advanced decomposition features at the time of autopsy. © 2017, World Informations Syndicate. All rights reserved.

Language: en

Keywords

Accidental; Asphyxia; Drowning; Suicide; WHO