A study of algor mortis in relation to cause and manner of death in hospitalised/non-hospitalised cases in tropical climate of central India
Journal Title: Indian Journal of Forensic and Community Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 2
Abstract
Introduction To understand the different aspects of average rate of cooling ARC in detail is very important for understanding algor mortis in order to determine time since death in early postmortem interval as the classic triad of socalled thanatochronological data is constituted by algor mortis rigor mortis and livor mortis This paper is a humble trial to show some light and to detect any relation between average rate cooling of cadaver to cause and manner of death and hospitalisation in tropical climate of central IndiaMaterials and Methods A cross sectional study was carried out in department of Forensic Medicine Toxicology Gandhi Medical College Bhopal 173 cadavers were selected randomly which were brought for autopsy After collecting routine data like age gender height weight etc following data were also collected ambient room temperature rectal temperature cause of death manner of death and hospitalisation Data were analysed using SPSS softwareConclusion The study found that cause of death manner of death or hospitalisation has no effect on rate of cooling p 005 Keywords Algor mortis Average rate of cooling Cause of death Manner of death Hospitalisednonhospitalised Cadaver
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Sujeet Kumar Samadder, Murli Lalwani, Rajneesh Kumar Pandey
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