A Retrospective Study on Common Place, Season and Post-Mortem Findings of Death Due To Drowning

Drowning is the process of experiencing respiratory impairment from submersion /immersion in liquid. Determining the cause of death in drowning cases is quite challenging which can be achieved with thorough investigation and complete autopsy done. After complete autopsy only the pathologist certifies a death best on drowning. In the field of Forensic Medicine are facing difficulties in estimation of time, cause and mode of death. Hence this study aimed to analyse the various aspect of drowning death whose Post Mortem were conducted in the Mortuary of Dhaka Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh in the year 2020. This study was a retrospective study which was conducted among 162 dead subjects. In this study all the dead bodies were recovered from different sources of submersion irrespective of age or sex and either the bodies were fresh or decomposed. Detailed history related to place of the incident, type of water, position of the body and other relevant findings were obtained from the records. The majority of the subjects with drowning were 118(72.83%) of the males following by 44(27.16%) of the female. The place of drowning was found to be in river 96(59.25%) and ditch 24 (14.81%) followed by lake 28(17.28%) and pond 14(8.64%). The magnitude of drowning is higher among males in and drowning has become an undervalued problem with inclusion of child population. Hence there is necessity for prevention among all the ages by the Government so that over all burden caused by drowning can be reduced.