| Deaths in the Bathtub |
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Juck-Joon Hwang |
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Department of Legal Medicine, Korea University College of Medicine, Institute of Legal Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Korea |
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| Abstract |
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Accidents in and about the home are extremely frequent and account for a distressing proportion of fatal accidents as well as disabling injuries and other degree of trauma. Until recently, fatal domestic accidents equaled or even exceeded deaths from motor vehicle accidents.
Persons at the extremes of life are more at risk, although all age groups are still too prone to home accidents. The fatality rate of accidents in the home was almost identical, being 12.6 per 100,000 in the United States and 12.0 per 100,000 in England, but in Korea was not known.
The main causes of the domestic accidents are not only falls, fires, asphyxiation and poisoning but not infrequent firearms, eletrocution and drowning in the bathtub.
Among accidents in the home, the author discussed about drowning in the bathtub about manner of death, motives and autopsy findings, etc. |
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