Analytical Post Mortem Study of Head Injury in Road Traffic Accident in City Lucknow Awasthi Aditi1, Khan Iram2, Prasad B.D.3, Verma Anoop4 1JR-III, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, at Hind Institute of Medical Sciences, Barabanki-U.P. 2Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, at Hind Institute of Medical Sciences, Barabanki-U.P. 3Professor & Head, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, at Hind Institute of Medical Sciences, Barabanki-U.P. 4Professor & Head, Department of Forensic Medicine, K.G.M.U. Lucknow Online published on 19 January, 2018. Abstract This study was conducted at KGMU Morgue among 121 postmortem cases of road traffic accident (RTA) victims over a period of 1 year. The objectives of this study were to know incidence of head injury among vehicular accidents, pattern of head injury, characteristics of victims eg age, sex, involved vehicle, circumstance of accidents, helmet was used or not. In this study only those postmortem cases were observed that reached morgue after accident. The criteria for exclusion were decomposed bodies, unknown, natural diseases, admitted cases and fatality due to other body parts. Out of 121 cases 88.42% were male and 11.57% were female. The highest incidence of RTA was observed in the age group of 21–30 years. Among the two wheelers 99.22% had not used helmet. The highest number of victims were of two wheelers.(46.34%). Regarding injury pattern in different parts of the body, all the victims had multiple abrasions and bruise, 83.47% had laceration, 85.12% had injury in skull bone, 100% injury to brain, 10.74% victims had injury to abdominal viscera, 16.52% had injury to rib cage bones, 14.87% to heart and lungs, 17.35% to liver and spleen and 7.43% to kidney. In the skull linear/fissure fracture was the commonest type of fracture (60.33%), followed by comminuted fracture(16.52%), depressed fracture 8.26%. Parietal bone was most prone to be fractured (32.03%) followed by temporal bone (29.12%). Most of the victims had subdural haemorrhage 85.95%. Top Keywords Head Injury, Road Traffic Accident, Post Mortem, Type of Fracture, Cerebral Hemorrhage. Top |