Autopsies in Aydin in the aged group of between 0 and 18

In this study it is aimed to determinate in 0-18 age group death cases in Aydın. In this study, 255 cases of 0-18 age groups cases whose dead examinations and autopsies were done by Department of Forensic Medicine of Adnan Menderes University were examined as retrospectively according to the age, sex, origin and death reason between 2002- 2012. 255 (%6,2) cases were in the age group of between 0 and 18 of the 2565 cases. %73,67 (n:187) of the cases were male and %26,3 (n:67) of the cases were female. The majority were in the groups aged 0-4 years. The place of event was inside or around home in 110 (%43,1) cases and %55,7 of the cases are died at the place of event. The accident is commonly seen as orijin (%52,5) and death from natural reasons (%32,2) follow this. 81 of the cases (%31,8) are died from natural reasons, 70 of cases are (%27,5) died from blunt trauma and 66 of the cases are (%25,9) died from asphyxia. Where as the car crash are the first in the unnatural death reasons, the pnömoni-bronkopnömoni is the first reason of the natural death reasons. It is detected that in the %77,6 of victims autopsy was performed systematically. The majority of childhood unnatural deaths are caused by accidents especially car crash. Therefore to reduce the number of the child death, some extensive efforts must spend to reduce the number of traffic accidents and some preventive measures for child must take. Diagnosis in medical units and widespread medical treatment will considerably reduce the number of childhood death.