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- Title
Medico Legal Aspects in the Cases of Flame Burn Deaths.
- Authors
Upadhyay, Sushma; Yadav, Sudhir
- Abstract
Injuries due to burns are known to have a very high mortality. Burn injuries occur due to a variety of thermal, electrical, mechanical products and can be accidental, suicidal or even homicidal in nature. In this study flame burn injuries are taken. According to this study in flame burn victim most of the cases was of suicide those were followed by accidental and homicidal those were found .The absence of soot in the respiratory tract does not allow in drawing the conclusion that exposure to the fire occurred after death. Apart from the soot inhalation as a vitality parameter, there are other vital signs that include, line of redness, vesicles can be seen.
- Subjects
BURNS &; scalds; WOUNDS &; injuries; FORENSIC medicine; TOXICOLOGY of poisonous gases; INHALATION injuries
- Publication
Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, 2018, Vol 12, Issue 2, p177
- ISSN
0973-9122
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5958/0973-9130.2018.00098.1