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Electrical Injuries

Southern Medical Journal, 2000
Electrical injuries may occur from high or low voltage contact. Low voltage injuries usually occur in the home, tetany may lead to sustained contact, and dangerous cardiac disturbances often result. High voltage injuries are usually work related and result from brief contact but may cause serious tissue destruction and secondary injuries.
J A, Martinez, T, Nguyen
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Electrical injury of the eye

International Ophthalmology, 1987
A 17-year-old male suffered superficial and deep facial burns after coming into contact with a high tension electrical cable with his head and right side of the face. The right eye sustained severe thermal coagulative injuries and subsequently was enucleated. Histopathological examination showed that the retinal neuropile was relatively intact although
S M, Al Rabiah   +4 more
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Electrical injuries

Critical Care Medicine, 2002
Electrical injury is a relatively infrequent but potentially devastating form of multisystem injury with high morbidity and mortality. Most electrical injuries in adults occur in the work-place, whereas children are exposed primarily at home. In nature, electrical injury occurs due to lightning, which also carries the highest mortality. The severity of
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