Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 13
  • Issue: 4

Estimation of Time Since Death from Postmortem Lividity

1Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Sawangi (Meghe), Wardha, Maharashtra

2Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Sawangi (Meghe), Wardha, Maharashtra

3Professor and Head, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Sawangi (Meghe), Wardha, Maharashtra

*Corresponding Author: Dr. Swapnil Patond, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Sawangi (Meghe), Wardha, Maharashtra-442004

Online published on 27 November, 2019.

Abstract

Postmortem lividity is one of the important indicators of PMI-postmortem interval. In the present study 100 medicolegal cases were examined for fixation of postmortem lividity, when livid area is pressed by thumb for period 30 seconds and if there is no evidence of blanching then it was considered as lividity is fixed and if there was blanching it was considered as postmortem lividity was not fixed, in the department of Forensic Medicine Indira Gandhi Medical college, Nagpur. We have got PM lividity appeared and fixed at minimum PMI 11 hours and maximum PMI was 25 hours

Keywords

Postmortem lividity, postmortem interval