Citation

Talewad SS, Nadaf AA, Talewad VS. Indian J. Forensic Med. Toxicol. 2019; 13(1): 162-167.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, All-India Institute of Medical Sciences. Deptartment of Forensic Medicine)

DOI

10.5958/0973-9130.2019.00033.1

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Fire has been known to mankind for about 400,000 years. Although the use of fire was known to ancient man, it is probably the potential fury of an unharnessed fire that made man bow before it. Burn injuries occur universally and have plagued mankind ever since antiquity till the present day. Burn injuries are the commonest cause of unnatural death in India and constitute a major cause of death and morbidity in the world and in this country too. Burns always have posed a threat to the sensitive human body. The present study is from the data collected of 48 burn cases which were autopsied at mortuary, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology SNMC Bagalkot. It was observed that majority of the victims were in the age group of 21-30 years, with female to male ratio of 5:1. Most of the victims were married and the majority were housewives, belonging to rural area and of class-I socioeconomic strata. Most of the burns took place in the kitchen, mostly due to kerosene stove burst. Body surface area involvement was more than 76% in maximum number of cases. Septicemia was the leading cause of death and majority of the victims died within a week. © 2019, Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology. All rights reserved.

Language: en

Keywords

adolescent; adult; human; gender; suicide; burn; child; female; male; Morbidity; Burns; shock; aged; autopsy; cause of death; mortality; risk factor; death; socioeconomics; human tissue; middle aged; groups by age; demography; septicemia; kerosene; Unnatural death; Fire; lowest income group; Article; fuel; accidental injury; kitchen; Septicemia; toxemia