TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Deaths due to poisoning at district hospital - A retrospective study
JO  - Indian journal of forensic medicine and toxicology
A1  - Patil, D.
SP  - 221
EP  - 222
VL  - 7
IS  - 2
N2  - Deaths due to poisoning are more in developing countries and methods of poisoning varies from one place to other. Hence to know the pattern of poisoning, a retrospective study was done at a district hospital, Raichur (Karnataka) between the years 2009 -2012. During this period 302 cases of poisoning deaths were autopsied. These poisoning cases were studied to know age and sex distribution of the victims, commonest type of poisons used and manner of poisoning. In this study, majority 220 (72.85%) of the cases were due to organophosphorus compound, followed by snake bite 30 (9.93%), aluminium phosphide 21 (6.95%) and others respectively.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0973-9122
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.5958/j.0973-9130.7.2.051
ID  - ref1
ER  -