Volume : 8, Issue : 4, April - 2019

THE STUDY OF CHANGING TRENDS OF FIREARM INJURIES

Dr Pankaj Kumar, Dr Radha Raman Singh, Dr Arvind Kumar Singh

Abstract :

This study “changing trends of fatal fire-arm injuries ought for autopsy in PMCH Patna after a gap of about 30 years” is the study of fatal fire arm injuries (f.f.arm) & its various aspects in autopsies carried out in Patna Medical College Hospital, Patna between Feuary 1987 to August 1988 and between March 2016 to September 2017. After an interval of a long period (about 30 years) some aspects of firearm injuries are seen to change remarkably i.e. like change in age pattern, shifting of rural pattern into urban pattern, sight of injury and the changing pattern of the distance of firing.