Explosion Injuries — MCQs

During autopsy of a 65-year-old man who collapsed while eating dinner at home, a foreign body (food bolus) is found obstructing the larynx with no other injuries. The manner of death is:

In blast injury, which organ is most likely to be damaged first?

Which one of the following is a secondary brain injury?

In a blast injury, which of the following organs is least involved?

In air blast injury, which is the most commonly affected organ? CMC (Vellore) 07; AI 09; AIIMS 10; NEET 14

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A forensic pathologist examining a burnt body finds pugilistic attitude, heat fractures of skull bones, and epidural hematoma. Evaluate the significance of these findings in determining whether burns occurred ante-mortem or post-mortem:

A victim of alleged homicide shows a wound with abraded, contused, and inverted margins with presence of fibrous tissue bridges at the base. The skull underneath shows a linear fracture. Analyze the nature of injury:

Which of the following may involve under-running?

A 25-year-old female was found in a room with 100% burns on her body. The tongue was protruding, the body was in a pugilistic attitude with heat ruptures, peeling of skin, heat hematoma, and heat fractures of the skull. Carboxyhemoglobin was 25%, and soot particles were present in the trachea. Which combination of two findings will establish that the burns were antemortem in nature?