Profile of Medico legal Autopsies Conducted at Tertiary Medico-legal Centre in Northern India

Mann, Gurmanjit Rai; Saini, Rajender Kumar; Saini, Nitika

doi:10.18099/ijetv.v7i01.4

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“…15 Likewise, more than half of the medico-legal examinations of dead body in India were accidents, followed by suicides and homicides. 16 The most frequently injured body parts in this study were the head, neck, and extremities; which was dominated by abrasions and the most common cause of injury was blunt force trauma. This is in accordance with Ratu,et al study, where 50% of traffic accident victims suffered abrasions, especially in the head and lower limbs.…”

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Profile of Medico-legal Cases and Body Injuries in a Tertiary Hospital in Padang, Indonesia 2010-2020

Windasari

Manela

Hidayat

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Forensic medicine is a branch of medicine that examines victims for the benefit of justice. Doctors play an important role in documenting injuries or abnormalities on the victim's body in the patient's medical record. This study aimed to determine the characteristics of cases and injuries of patients at M Djamil General Hospital during the period of 2010-2020. This was a descriptive retrospective study on secondary data from the medical records of patients who were examined and consulted to the Forensic Department of Dr. M. Djamil General Hospital, Padang during 2010-2020. During this period, 11.729 patients (victims) were examined by and consulted to the Department. Most of the victims were male (70.6%) aged 10-19 years old (29.2%). Most of the victims were involved in a traffic accident, followed by persecution. Victims of traffic accident dominated the forensic pathology cases after sudden death. Abrasions and open wound injury were the most frequent types of injury, with head and neck as the body parts mostly affected. In terms of the type of wound, most victims experienced injuries caused by blunt force (87%). This study concluded that the forensic cases managed at the Dr. M. Djamil General Hospital vary with blunt forces by a traffic accident as the most frequent cause of injuries while the head and neck become the body parts that are most susceptible to injury, both for survivors and those who died.

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confidence: 83%