Socio Demographic Profile of Head Injury among Medico Legal Autopsies Conducted in a Rural Medical College Ruia SM1, Viswakanth B2 1Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, P.K Das Institute of Medical Sciences, Vaniyamkulam, Palakkad District Kerala 2Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, P.K Das Institute of Medical Sciences, Vaniyamkulam, Palakkad District Kerala Online published on 7 May, 2019. Abstract Incidence of injury cases are on rise year in urban as well as in rural population. The present work involved all autopsies referred from PRH or brought dead directly to P.M. Room, department of forensic medicine, rural Medical college, Loni during the years July 1997 to June 2000. A pre-tested structured proforma was used to obtain the information regarding the injuries. The observations thus made are presented in this paper. Top Keywords Head Injury, Medicolegal autopsy, Road traffic accidents, cranio-cerebral injury, blunt trauma, sharp force. Top |