1Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Adichunchanagiri Institute of Medical Sciences, Mandya, Karnataka State, India
2Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Adichunchanagiri Institute of Medical Sciences, Mandya, Karnataka State, India
3Tutor, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Adichunchanagiri Institute of Medical Sciences, Mandya, Karnataka State, India
*Corresponding author: Kumar U, Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Adichunchanagiri Institute of Medical Sciences, Mandya, Karnataka State, India E mail-kumarugrappa@yahoo.co.in, Phone number-9742220084
Online published on 27 July, 2017.
Drowning is a form of asphyxia due to the process of experiencing respiratory impairment from submersion/immersion in liquid.
In this retrospective study, all the fatal drowning cases that were subjected to postmortem from the period January 1 2012 to December 31 2015 were analyzed at the Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Adichunchanagiri Institute of Medical Sciences, B G Nagara, and Karnataka.
In this current study, maximum number of fatal drowning was seen among 20 to 40 years age group and male to female ratio is 2.1: 1. Accidental drowning was reported in 10 cases and suicidal drowning was seen in 29 cases of fatal drowning. Manner of death could not be found out in 10 cases of drowning due to lack of identity of the body and advanced decomposition features at the time of autopsy.
Accidental, Drowning, Suicide, Asphyxia, WHO
