Medico-Legal Update
  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 19
  • Issue: 2

Retrospective Study of Analysis of Deaths Due to Burns in GMERS Medical College and Hospital, Dharpur-Patan

1Tutor, GMERS Medical College, Dharpur, Patan

2Associate Professor, GMERS Medical College, Dharpur, Patan

*Corresponding Author: Dr. Gaurang J. Patel, Associate Professor, Forensic Medicine Dept, GMERS Medical College, Dharpur, Patan. E-mail- dr.gaurangp@yahoo.in, M.NO. 09724319934

Online published on 8 August, 2019.

Abstract

Fire, one of the pure elements forming the world and one of the elements to provide life energy to all living beings, sometimes turns deadly. In Forensic Medicine departments, one of the most common cases for post mortem examinations is Burns case. But it becomes difficult many a times to comment on the manner of death in cases with a brief survival period. So, the currentretrospective study was undertaken at Mortuary complex of GMERS Medical college, Dharpur-Patan, Gujarat during the period from 1st Jan 2016 to 31stDec 2017.

Keywords

Burns, Epidemiology, Survival period