Citation

Punia RK, Meena PR. Med. Legal Update 2016; 16(1): 85-87.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, R.K. Sharma and Institute of Medico-Legal Publications)

DOI

10.5958/0974-1283.2016.00019.0

PMID

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Abstract

Unnatural childhood deaths are associated with intense trauma and separation distress for the parents and near relatives. Traumatic injuries can be brought about by many ways like road traffic accident, burns, fall from a height, drowning, hanging, poisoning etc. This study was conducted at the Department of Forensic Medicine, SMS Hospital, Jaipur over a period of one year from November, 2013 to October. 2014. A total of 3306 medico-legal autopsies were conducted during the study period, out of them 221 cases were pediatric fatalities due to unnatural causes were included in the study. About two thirds of all the cases were males compared to females which contributed about 33.93 %. Majority of the fatalities were attributed to Road traffic accidents (51.61%). In our study shock and coma were found to be nearly at par with each other as mode of death. © 2016, World Informations Syndicate. All rights reserved.

Language: en

Keywords

adolescent; Child; adult; human; Adolescent; homicide; suicide; child; female; male; asphyxia; shock; autopsy; traffic accident; intoxication; Forensic autopsy; major clinical study; sex ratio; groups by age; coma; electrocution; Unnatural death; child death; Article; septic shock; Medico legal case; Pediatrics age group; unnatural childhood death