Medico-Legal Update
  • Year: 2013
  • Volume: 13
  • Issue: 1

A Study of Pattern of Asphyxial Deaths in Shimla Hills

  • Author:
  • Sangeet Dhillon1, Anjali Mahajan2, H S Sekhon3
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • Page Number: 118 to 121

1Registrar, Deptt of Forensic Medicine, Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla

2Registrar, Deptt of Community Medicine, Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla

3Professor and Head of Department, Department of Forensic Medicine, Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla

Online published on 2 July, 2013.

Abstract

This is a retrospective analytical study of violent asphyxial deaths reported to Department of Forensic Medicine, IGMC Shimla from January -December 2005.Out of 218 postmortems conducted in department 12 (5.5%) cases were of violent asphyxial deaths. The present study emphasis on demographic variables, type of asphyxia, pattern of injuries in such cases.