Study of various demographic factors affecting average rate of cooling of cadavers 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 step 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 in the direction of average rate cooling of cadavers in relation to different demographic indicators personal and environmental effects in tropical climate of central IndiaMaterials and Methods A cross sectional study was carried out on 173 randomly selected cadavers which were brought for autopsy in department of Forensic Medicine Toxicology Gandhi Medical College Bhopal Following data were collected age gender height weight ambient room temperature and rectal temperature Data was analysed by using SPSS softwareResult Average rate of cooling was found more in males 1Fhour as compared to females 08Fhour more in underweight persons 12 Fhour as compared to obese 07 Fhour more in cold environment 18 Fhour as compared to hot environment 07 Fhour and extreme age group was found to have extreme rate of coolingKeywords Postmortem cooling Time since death Average rate of cooling Ambient room temperature Algor mortis Cadaver
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Ashish Jain, Jayanthi Yadav, Sujeet Kumar Samadder
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