Incidence of mode of death and organ damage

To correlate organ damage with modes of death. Department of Forensic Medicine, Khyber Medical College Peshawar. January 2007 to December 2007. The record of one hundred cases autopsied in the morgue was perused, carefully scrutinized and segregated, and information entered in the tables for analysis. The commonest mode of death was syncope [44%]. coma [40%] and asphyxia [16%]. Organs most commonly involved were brain [43%], lungs [22%], abdominal viscera [17%], heart [15%] and major blood vessel [3%]. Brain damage is commoner than the injuries of the heart, lungs and viscera followed by damage to the major blood vessels