8. Prole of Cases of Decomposition and Correlation of Identication and Cause of Death With Time Since Death in Decomposition.

Shailesh D. Bhuva, Viral J. Aghera, H. M. Mangal, Pratik R. Varu, Milind N. Patel, Raghurajsinh D. Vaghela,

Int Res Pub Med Sci, 2015;1(3):46-51

ABSTRACT

Background: Decomposition is a major cause of Un-identi?cation of a dead body and often it is very dif?cult to get the positive ?ndings to derive the cause of death. Aims & Objectives: This study was conducted to know the incidence of decomposition in relation with age, sex, religion, marital status, and place of death etc, and to establish co-relation of identi?cation and cause of death with time since death. Results: This study was conducted at the department of Forensic Medicine at P. D. U. Medical College, RAJKOT (Gujarat) and we found that highest numbers of the cases were Hindu, married Males in the age group of 21-30 years belonging to rural area. Among all cases, highest numbers of cases were received during the months from July to October. Conclusion: Among all cases of decomposed dead bodies, identity was established in 71% and cause of death was established in 74%. Identity was established in 75% cases when time since death was within 1-3 days. Cause of death was established in 84.61% cases when time since death was within 1-3 days, while could not be detected in all cases when time since death was more than 3 months duration. So it is evident that as the time since death increases, possibility of determination of identity and cause of death decreases.

Key-words: Decomposition, Time since death, Cause of death, identi?cation, Correlation.

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