Abstract
Acute poisoning is a cause of both morbidity and fatality in many parts of the world. Furadan, the organocarbamatecommonly available in Kerala, being used in plantain, tea, potato and carrot farms as insecticideare usually misused as an easy source of poison for suicide. This study was carried out on Twenty ninemedico legal cases, brought with history of carbamate poisoning which were brought for autopsy duringthe period from January 2014 to June 2015. The main objectives of the study were to study post-mortemfindings in Carbamate poisoning, clinical profile in Carbamate poisoning and histopathological changes inBrain, Heart, Lungs, Liver and Kidney due to Carbamate poisoning. Males (82.8%) outnumbered femalesand maximum cases were of age group 51-60 yrs (27.6%). Most of the victims were taken to hospitalfor treatment and died after admission (58.6%). Such studies of poisoning cases will help authorities forplanning, prevention and treatment of these cases
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