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Deaths due to Poisoning at District Hospital - A Retrospective Study


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1 Dept. of Forensic Medicine, Navodaya Medical college, Raichur, India
     

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Deaths due to poisoning are more in developing countries and methods of poisoning varies from one place to other. Hence to know the pattern of poisoning, a retrospective study was done at a district hospital, Raichur (Karnataka) between the years 2009 - 2012. During this period 302 cases of poisoning deaths were autopsied. These poisoning cases were studied to know age and sex distribution of the victims, commonest type of poisons used and manner of poisoning. In this study, majority 220 (72.85%) of the cases were due to organophosphorus compound, followed by snake bite 30 (9.93%), aluminium phosphide 21 (6.95%) and others respectively.

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Poisoning, Unnatural Death, Organophosporous Compound, Snake Bite
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Devaraj Patil
Dept. of Forensic Medicine, Navodaya Medical college, Raichur, India

Abstract


Deaths due to poisoning are more in developing countries and methods of poisoning varies from one place to other. Hence to know the pattern of poisoning, a retrospective study was done at a district hospital, Raichur (Karnataka) between the years 2009 - 2012. During this period 302 cases of poisoning deaths were autopsied. These poisoning cases were studied to know age and sex distribution of the victims, commonest type of poisons used and manner of poisoning. In this study, majority 220 (72.85%) of the cases were due to organophosphorus compound, followed by snake bite 30 (9.93%), aluminium phosphide 21 (6.95%) and others respectively.

Keywords


Poisoning, Unnatural Death, Organophosporous Compound, Snake Bite

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