Pattern of Medico-legal Cases in the Casualty Department of A Teaching Hospital, Bareilly, Uttar-Pradesh

Casualty department is the Heart of any hospital and is an important key area because most of medical and surgical emergencies and almost all medico-legal cases first reported here. It is the duty of first attending doctor to prepare report of all the medico-legal case with all required guidelines. Considering the importance of this work this retrospective study was conducted to analyze the pattern and magnitude of all the medico-legal cases registered in the casualty department of SRMS IMS Medical College Bareilly between January-December 2014. This study revealed that RTA constituted majority (64.39%) of medico-legal cases followed by poisoning (17.80%) and fall from height (3.79%). Majority of cases were male (81.44%). The most of the cases were in the age group 21–30 years (30.68%). The most of cases were reported in casualty between 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. (35.61%) followed by 6 p.m. to 12 a.m. (35.23%). The maximum case were reported in November (17.05%) followed by July (12.5%). The most of cases reported in Rainy season (July-October) (38.64%) followed by winter (34.85%).