A Study of Pattern of Asphyxial Deaths in Shimla Hills

This is a retrospective analytical study of violent asphyxial deaths reported to Department of Forensic Medicine, IGMC Shimla from January -December 2005.Out of 218 postmortems conducted in department 12 (5.5%) cases were of violent asphyxial deaths. The present study emphasis on demographic variables, type of asphyxia, pattern of injuries in such cases.