A Study of Asphyxial Deaths Kanth Z. Sasi1, Ramarao Bharathi2 1Associate Professor, Government Medical College (RIMS), Kadapa 2Associate Professor, Bhaskar Medical College, Yenkapally, Moinabad, Ranga Reddy. Dt Online published on 8 August, 2019. Abstract An increasing death rate as a result of violence constitutes a large group in medicolegal autopsies. Specially, deaths due to asphyxia are one of the most important causes in violence deaths. During the 5-year period from January 2013 to October 2018, there were 134 asphyxial deaths autopsied by the Department of Forensic Medicine, ACSR Government Medical College, Nellore. Asphyxial deaths comprise 15.7% of all forensic autopsies; 20.8% of the cases are aged between 30 and 39 years, and the average age was 41.9 years. Males constitute 79.8% of all the cases. The most frequent method of asphyxiation death is hanging (56 cases, 61.8%), followed by drowning (32.6%) and More violent methods, such as ligature or manual strangulations, constitute 3.1% and 2.5% of all asphyxial deaths, respectively. Although it was varying according to the methods of asphyxiation, suicide was found to be the manner of death in the majority of the cases. Top Keywords Method of asphyxiation, manner of death, cause of death, autopsy. Top |