An intoxicated 43-year-old male in the bar was involved in an altercation with three persons and received blows and kicks to his head and abdomen. After that, the victim was left lying on the ground and after 30 minutes the people in that bar made the person to sit and at that time they noticed vomit near him and was unconscious. So they shifted that patient to a nearby hospital. On arrival, the patient was declared brought dead and shifted to the mortuary for post mortem examination.
At autopsy, we noticed deceased was moderately built with both eyes congested and cyanosis at finger nail beds. There was an abrasion of size 1 cm X 1 cm on both sides of the face, contusion on left side of neck and laceration of size 1.5cm X 0.2cm X soft tissue deep seen at right thumb. All injuries are ante mortem in nature. …show more content…
The stomach contained around 500 grams partially digested brown coloured food particles mixed with fluid emitting fruity odour with mucosa congested (Figure 2). The right kidney was normal and left kidney showed perinephric hematoma. There was a contusion present on right side of thoracic wall corresponding to the second and third rib. Partially digested food particles corresponding to what food materials present in the stomach was seen on both sides of primary and secondary bronchus (Figure 3). Both lungs were congested and edematous. Viscera were sent for chemical analysis and report was found to be positive for Blood alcohol concentration of 281mg%. The final cause of death was due to the combination of asphyxia due to chocking and head injury along with central nervous system depressant effects of
At autopsy, we noticed deceased was moderately built with both eyes congested and cyanosis at finger nail beds. There was an abrasion of size 1 cm X 1 cm on both sides of the face, contusion on left side of neck and laceration of size 1.5cm X 0.2cm X soft tissue deep seen at right thumb. All injuries are ante mortem in nature. …show more content…
The stomach contained around 500 grams partially digested brown coloured food particles mixed with fluid emitting fruity odour with mucosa congested (Figure 2). The right kidney was normal and left kidney showed perinephric hematoma. There was a contusion present on right side of thoracic wall corresponding to the second and third rib. Partially digested food particles corresponding to what food materials present in the stomach was seen on both sides of primary and secondary bronchus (Figure 3). Both lungs were congested and edematous. Viscera were sent for chemical analysis and report was found to be positive for Blood alcohol concentration of 281mg%. The final cause of death was due to the combination of asphyxia due to chocking and head injury along with central nervous system depressant effects of