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Research Paper | Medical Surgical | India | Volume 4 Issue 9, September 2015

Study of Dry Thermal Fatal Burn Prevalence with Occupational Work in Varanasi Area; India

Dr. Mayank Gupta ^[7] | Dr. Awdhesh Kumar ^[16]

Abstract: Burns are one of the most devastating conditions encountered in medicine. The injury represents an assault on all aspects of the patient, from the physical to the psychological. In India, about 700, 000 to 800, 000 people per year sustain significant burns, though very few are looked after in specialist burn units. The aim of study to find out how dry thermal burn affect occupational status of victim among study group and its medico legal consequence and to height light problem regarding dry thermal burn affect occupational status of victim. Material for present retrospective study comprises 450 fatal cases of death due to burn of both sex of different age group brought to the mortuary of the Department of Forensic Medicine, Institute of Medical Science, Banaras Hindu University Varanasi, India during the study period from 01-01-2013 to 30-06-2014 taken randomly for medico legal postmortem examination from various police stations of Varanasi and surrounding regions. Show that most of the victims were housewives 6711 % followed by students 11.33 % and house related work victims include 5.11 %, Business and labor include each 3.11 %.

Keywords: Burn Death, Occupational Burn, Forensic Medicine, Dowry Death, Unnatural death

Edition: Volume 4 Issue 9, September 2015,

Pages: 1362 - 1365

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