Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine
Volume 14, Issue 1 , Pages 3-6, January 2007

Fatal burns in Manipal area: A 10year study

  • Virendra Kumar

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology (Forensic Unit), Faculty of Medicine, University Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +60 16 2839807; fax: +60 3 79556845.
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  • Manoj Kumar Mohanty

      Affiliations

    • Department of Forensic Medicine, Dr. Pinnamaneni Siddhartha Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Foundation, Chinoutpalli, Gannavaram Mandal, Krishna Dist.–521286, Andra Pradesh, India
    • ,
  • Sarita Kanth

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, KMC, Manipal–576104, (Karnataka) India

Received 14 May 2005; received in revised form 13 September 2005; accepted 28 September 2005.

Abstract 

The purpose of this study was to record and evaluate the causes and the magnitude of the fatal burn injuries retrospectively. An analysis of autopsy records revealed 19.4% cases of burn injuries amongst the total autopsies done over 10years period (1993–2002) in the mortuary of the department of Forensic Medicine of Kasturba medical College, Manipal. The majority of deaths (78.5%) occurred between 11 and 40years of age group with preponderance of females (74.8%). The flame burns were seen in 94.1% of the victims followed by scalds and electrical burns in 2.8% and 2.5% cases, respectively. The majority of burn incidents were accidental (75.8%) in nature followed by suicidal (11.5%) and homicidal (3.1%) deaths. The percentage of burn (TBSA) over 40% were observed in most of the cases (92.5%). The majority of deaths occurred within a week (69.87%) and most the victims died because of septicemia (50.9%).

Keywords: Accidental, Flame burns, Survival period, TBSA

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PII: S1353-1131(05)00170-7

doi:10.1016/j.jcfm.2005.09.002

Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine
Volume 14, Issue 1 , Pages 3-6, January 2007

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