Analysis of fatal burns cases in a Metropolitan city of south India

Abstract

Burns are one of the most devastating injuries seen in the emergency units of developing countries and are considered as one of the leading causes of deaths throughout the world. The epidemiology of burns related deaths vary from one part of the world to another. A retrospective observational study was conducted in the Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangalore between January 2013 to June 2015, and the observations made with regard to demographic profile, injury profile and mortality pattern in autopsy cases of burns are presented in this paper.