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Cross Sectional Study of Road Traffic Accidents with Forensic Autopsy View at Davangere Karnataka.

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العنوان: Cross Sectional Study of Road Traffic Accidents with Forensic Autopsy View at Davangere Karnataka.
المؤلفون: S., Satish Babu B., M., Raju G., V., Vijayanath
المصدر: Medico-Legal Update; Jul-Dec2013, Vol. 13 Issue 2, p130-133, 4p
مستخلص: Road Traffic Accident (RTA) is any vehicular accident occurring on the roadway this includes collision of an automobile with a pedestrian, another automobile or with a non-automobile on the roadway/ fall from a moving vehicle causing injuries or death of involved individuals. The objective is to describe injuries of road traffic deaths in Davangere, Karnataka, India. A crosssectional study includes road traffic accidents death during the period of 2009-2010. Those Patients who died in the J.J.M. Medical College, and subsequently postmortem examination conducted. Hundred cases of RTA deaths were included in the study. Deaths due to Road Traffic Accidents (RTA) are increasing at an alarming rate throughout the world. Thereby it poses itself as a major epidemiological and medico legal problem. Victims in RTAs sustain large varieties of injuries, which are fatal or dangerous to life. The study of injuries associated with fatal outcome that helps in implementation of measures to prevent fatalities due to RTAs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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قاعدة البيانات: Complementary Index
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تدمد:0971720X
DOI:10.5958/j.0974-1283.13.2.031