6. Study On The Medico-Legal Aspects Of Flame Burn Deaths.

Anupam Johry, R.K.Mathur, Ashuthosh Srivastava,

Int Res Pub Med Sci 2015;1(4):35-40

ABSTRACT

Background: Flame burn cases always have top priority for treating doctors and medicolegal personnel. Aims & Objectives: Our aim was to obtain a statistical pro?le of survivals and deaths among flame burn victims and to develop predictive models for mortality and length of hospital stay of burn subjects especially in relation to the factors related to medicolegal significance. Methods: The present prospective & observational study was carried out in the Department of Forensic Medicine Toxicology in association with Department of Burn and Plastic Surgery of JLN Medical College, Ajmer, Rajasthan. Total 232 cases, which were intimated to us by burn or causality department, were studied in detail during the one year period from 1st January 2014 to 31st December 2014. Results: The sex ratio found in this study was 1:1.2; out of them married males were 50.58% & married females were 58.49% with respect to their unmarried counterparts. Female were having higher mortality than their male counterpart. Maximum incidences were seen among the age between 20-40 yrs of age group. Major bulk (28% of all cases) sustained burns involving 81-100% body surface area. There was gradual decrease in mean survival period in patients where 41-60, 61-80 and 81-100 body surface area was involved. As a whole mean survival period of the expired subject was 5.41 days with Standard Deviation of 5.16. Majority (92.24%) of the incidences were accidental in nature. Conclusion: The study reveals that the cause of death in 67 cases (56.77%) was septicaemia and females found to be more venerable for the burn incidences and were also having relatively high mortality than their male counterpart.

Key-words: Flame burn, marital status, age, surface area, survival period.

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