TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Hooch tragedy: an autopsy study at Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital, Bangalore
JO  - Indian journal of forensic medicine and toxicology
A1  - Bheemappa, H.
A1  - Satish, K. V.
A1  - Puneeth Kumar, B. P.
A1  - Mugadlimath, Anand
SP  - 38
EP  - 43
VL  - 10
IS  - 1
N2  - A complete medicolegal autopsy was conducted on 51 victims of consumption of illicit liquor were brought to Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital, Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute, Bangalore. The highest peak of incidence was found in the in the age group of 31 to 40 years (35.29%). 41(80.39%) were male and 10 (19.61%) were female. The period of survival after consumption of illicit alcohol shows that most of the fatalities occurred within 13-24 hours (43.14%) of consumption. The average blood methyl alcohol and ethyl alcohol levels were 21.46 mg% and 14.53% respectively.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0973-9122
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.5958/0973-9130.2016.00010.4
ID  - ref1
ER  -