1Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Late Lakhiram Agrawal Memorial Government Medical College, Raigarh, (C.G.)
2Final Year M.B.B.S. Student, Department of Anatomy, Late Lakhiram Agrawal Memorial Government Medical College, Raigarh, (C.G.)
3Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy, Late Lakhiram Agrawal Memorial Government Medical College, Raigarh, (C.G.)
4Pathologist, NMDC Patholgy, Amravati
5NMDC Patholgy, Amravati
6Assistant Professor, Shri V.N. Government Medical College, Yavatmal
Blast or explosive injuries are less studied areas in medical field. Injury pattern and morbidity and mortality needed discussion in detail, as the instances of blast are on rise all over the world.
The present retrospective study included 74 cases of deaths, due to explosion, brought to mortuary of Late Baliram Kashyap Memorial Government Medical College, Jagdalpur (C.G.), over the period of five years.
The young males (80% in age group of 21–40 years) are the only victims of explosions. Multiple organs are usually involved in victims, which increases the risk of mortality. Most of the blasts are of homicidal intent. The commonest injuries were lacerations and fractures (79.73% and 71.62), followed by burns, abrasions, contusions, and puncture lacerations. Long bones were the most common (45.95% cases) internal organ damaged, followed by lungs, blood vessels, spine, liver and brain. Kidneys were the least injured internal organs. In most of the cases, type of blast injuries was either not mentioned or undetermined (82.43%). The primary injuries were reported in 14% cases.
As most of the blasts are of homicidal intent, social awareness and monitoring might be useful tools to reduce morbidity and mortality, as the blast injuries are highly fatal.
blast injuries, explosive injuries
