Role of Vitreous Potassium Level In Estimating Postmortem Interval And The Factors Affecting It

IntroductIon No problem in forensic medicine has been investigated as thoroughly as that of determining the TSD on the basis of post mortem findings. Many chemical changes begin to take place in the body immediately or shortly after death and progress in a fairly orderly fashion until the body disintegrates. Each change has its own time factor or rate. These changes occur in various body fluids viz blood, spinal fluid and vitreous humor of eye. Thus determination of the chemical abnormalities could help forensic pathologists to ascertain time since death more precisely [1].