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Profile of Medicolegal Cases at Sri Siddhartha Medical College and Hospital, Tumkur


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Drawing a public attention and awareness towards casualties is important to prevent unnatural deaths; this possibly could reduce the incidence of such cases. This is a retrospective study (3 years & 11 months) conducted to understand the magnitude & pattern of medicolegal cases in this region of the state.

In this study revealed that road traffic accidents (64.6%) constituted the majority of medicolegal cases out of 1300, followed by assault and poisoning (10.3% and 8.4% respectively). Male predominance is quite evident. The affected age group is 21-30 years (30.5%) followed by 31-40 years and were more prone to such casualties


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Medicolegal Case, Injury, RTA, Fall from Height, Poisoning
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Authors

P Srinivasa Reddy
Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Sri Siddhartha Medical College & Hospital, Tumkur, India
N Harish Kumar
Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Sri Siddhartha Medical College & Hospital, Tumkur, India

Abstract


Drawing a public attention and awareness towards casualties is important to prevent unnatural deaths; this possibly could reduce the incidence of such cases. This is a retrospective study (3 years & 11 months) conducted to understand the magnitude & pattern of medicolegal cases in this region of the state.

In this study revealed that road traffic accidents (64.6%) constituted the majority of medicolegal cases out of 1300, followed by assault and poisoning (10.3% and 8.4% respectively). Male predominance is quite evident. The affected age group is 21-30 years (30.5%) followed by 31-40 years and were more prone to such casualties


Keywords


Medicolegal Case, Injury, RTA, Fall from Height, Poisoning

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