Fatal Aluminium Phosphide Poisonings in Nagamangala Taluq-A Retrospective Study

Toxicology deals with the study of symptoms, signs and mechanisms, treatments, postmortem appearances, detection and estimation of poisoning etc.

In this retrospective study, all the poisoning cases subjected to postmortem during the period 1January 2011 to 31December 2015 were analyzed at the department of Forensic medicine and Toxicology, Adichunchanagiri institute of medical sciences (AIMS), Nagamangala taluq.

In the current study, Aluminium phosphide poisoning accounted for 49 cases of the total number of deaths from all other poisoning fatalities.

On analysis of the present study, a total number of 186 cases were autopsied during the 5 year study period undertaken, indicating the incidence of increasing trend in suicidal poisoning deaths particularly among the rural farming community.

To improve the prognosis, effective management strategies and protocols should be implemented both at government and private hospitals so that there should not be any delay in managing the patients of poisoning.