Citation

Gouda S, Gopinath M. Indian J. Forensic Med. Toxicol. 2020; 14(4): 4148-4152.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020, All-India Institute of Medical Sciences. Deptartment of Forensic Medicine)

DOI

10.37506/ijfmt.v14i4.12291

PMID

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Abstract

On taking the consent from Head of the Department of Forensic Medicine, a retrospective study was conducted by analysing post mortem reports maintained in record section. Reports of post mortem examination done from 1st Jan 2017 to 31st Dec 2018 were analysed. Out of 520 cases done during this period, 105 (20.19%) were death due to asphyxia. In the same time data was also analysed with age of deceased, sex of deceased, season and manner of death. Among 105 cases of asphyxial deaths, males were more, accounting for 61 %(64) of study cases and females were 41(39%) cases. In the present study, commonest method of asphyxial deaths was by hanging (75.1%), followed by ligature strangulation (12.3%) and 1 case each of postural and sexual asphyxia was the cause of death, accounting as a least method of asphyxia deaths. When age wise assessment done, asphyxial deaths were most common in second and third decade of life, constituting most of the suicidal cases. Asphyxial deaths were almost equally distributed among all seasons. © 2020, Institute of Medico-Legal Publications. All rights reserved.

Language: en

Keywords

adolescent; adult; human; homicide; suicide; Hanging; child; drowning; female; male; Drowning; Asphyxia; asphyxia; aged; hanging; strangulation; Strangulation; death; religion; season; time; summer; winter; Article; single man; postural asphyxia; married person; Ligature; sexual asphyxia; skeletonization (postmortem)