1Senior Resident, Department of Forensic Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India
2Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India
3Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India
4Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India
*Corresponding Author: Dr. Bedanta Sarma Senior Resident, Department of Forensic Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India
Online published on 19 January, 2018.
Traumatic injury is a leading cause of death and disability in our society, most of which are accidental in nature and traffic accident is the commonest cause. During 2014, 53.4% victims died following traffic accident out of which 83.7% in road traffic accident and rest in railway accident. An autopsy based descriptional study was conducted in the department of Forensic Medicine, AMCH, Assam to find out the proportion and pattern of cardiac injury following blunt trauma (direct and indirect) irrespective of cause of death. Out of 542 deaths following blunt trauma, 74 were having cardiac injury (16.37%). Victims were mostly male (85.14%) within 21–30 years age group. 74.32% incidents were following road traffic accident and pedestrian was the commonest type of victim. Cardiac injuries were mostly confined to right ventricle and contusion (71.27%) being the commonest type. They were associated with injury to chest wall (97.8%), lungs (94.59%) and pericardium (95.95%).
trauma, road traffic accidents, autopsy, contusion
