1Senior Resident, Department of Forensic Medicine, Sri Venkateswara Medical College, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India
2Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Sri Venkateswara Medical College, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India
*Corresponding author: Dr. Karnam Mamatha Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine Sri Venkateswara Medical College, Tirupati-517 507, Andhra Pradesh, India Email id: mahnamls@gmail.com
Online published on 7 February, 2017.
Acute poisoning is a medical emergency. It is important to know the nature, severity and outcome of acute poisoning cases in order to take up appropriate planning, prevention and management techniques. So this study aimed to acess the incidence of poisoning amongst the age, sex, to study and analyze the Postmortem findings in various cases of poisoning in relation to Chemical analysis.
196 fatal cases of acute poisoning autopsied at Sri Venkateswara Medical College, Tirupati were studied. Complete autopsy of the body was carried out in each case.
Incidence was more in the age group of 20–29 years in both sexes. It was more common in young males. Organophosphorus constituted 91 cases (46.93%.. It also showed that in 52 cases (26.53%) the odour of the stomach content was pungent, in 30 cases (15.30%) kerosene like smell, garlicky like in 25 cases (12.75%), peculiar smell noticed in 33 cases (16.85%) and in 56 cases (23.97%) no smell was detected. The stomach mucosa was congested in 128 of the total cases, followed by nil particular changes in 37 cases, congested and hemorrhagic appearance in 26 cases and charred/eroded appearance in 5 cases of corrosive acid poisoning.
Poisoning is more common in young males. The overall mortality is substantially high, mainly contributed by self-poisoning with insecticides and corrosives. Early care in a tertiary care center may help to reduce mortality in India.
Acute poisoning, pattern and outcome, tertiary care hospital
