Patterns of Fatal Head Injuries Cases brought to Civil Hospital Mourtuary, Ahmedabad

Injuries and death due to trauma are very important events in forensic medicine subject. Their interpretation is vital to reconstruct the events and their proper management. In medical field every person comes across to injured patient examination and supposes to draw conclusion so the law will be able to take some action against the person who cause such type of injury. Among all the regional injuries, head & neck injuries are very common and important in forensic medicine. The incidence of head injuries is growing with greater mechanization in industry and increased in high velocity transport. The head is the target of choice in the majority of assaults involving blunt trauma. The brain and its covering are vulnerable to that degree of trauma as would rarely prove fatal, if applied to other body parts. The present study was undertaken with a view to draw the autopsy findings of pattern of skull fractures and intracranial hemorrhages in cases of fatal head trauma. The prospective study was conducted in the department of forensic medicine & toxicology of B.J.Medical College, Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Available number of dead bodies which are brought to mortuary directly or from neurosurgery department or from accidental emergency was studied. A total 200 cases of fatal head injury that had been reported to the department of Neurosurgery or in Accidental Emergency are studied grossly in relation with all the probable clinical findings, mechanical factors and other associated causes to rule out the status of fatal head injury cases. This study provides the pattern of skull fractures & intracranial hemorrhages, which may help to formulate the recommendations for proper management of acute head trauma cases at various levels & to formulate the recommendations for proper use of safety devices for reduction of incidence of head injury cases.