TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2006//
TI  - Fatal burns in Manipal area: A 10 year study
JO  - Journal of clinical forensic medicine
A1  - Kumar, Vishwajeet
A1  - Mohanty, Manoj Kumar
A1  - Kanth, Sarita
SP  - 3
EP  - 6
VL  - 14
IS  - 1
N2  - 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%).<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1353-1131
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcfm.2005.09.002
ID  - ref1
ER  -