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Outcomes of Patients with Amputation following Electrical Burn Injuries [PDF]

open access: diamondEuropean Burn Journal, 2023
This study aimed to examine patients who sustained amputation as a result of electrical burns and to evaluate their long-term health outcomes compared to non-electrical burn patients with amputation.
Eunyeop Kim   +3 more
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Lower trapezius myocutaneous flap repairs adjacent deep electrical burn wounds [PDF]

open access: goldEuropean Journal of Medical Research, 2020
Background Local tissue damage caused by electrical burns is often deep and severe. High-voltage electrical burns are common in the head, neck and torso areas.
Chengying Meng   +10 more
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Factors associated with mortality, amputation, pneumonia, and skin graft loss among electrical burn patients admitted in a Philippine tertiary hospital burn center from 2013 to 2019

open access: goldBurns Open, 2021
Electrical burns are considered as the most devastating and one of the most common causes of burn admissions worldwide. It is cited as the 4th most frequent cause of admission among burn units worldwide. Approximately 1–20% of admission in the Philippine
Mar Aristeo G. Poncio   +1 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Electrical Burn and Amputations in a Burn Center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia [PDF]

open access: yesPlastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open
Background:. Burn injuries are a global public health problem and continue to be one of the leading causes of unintentional death and injury. Electrical injuries, a relatively rare cause of burns, are increasingly being reported with higher rates of ...
Metasebia W. Abebe, MD, FCS (ECSA)   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Changing trends in electrical burn injury due to technology

open access: diamondIndian Journal of Burns, 2019
Background: Electrical burn injuries result from accidental contact with exposed parts of electrical appliances, wiring, or lightning strikes. The purpose of this study was to analyze the mode of electric burn injuries occurring in the current ...
Gurudayal Singh Kalra   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Late onset quadriparesis in high voltage electrical burn – A case report

open access: goldBurns Open, 2022
Electrical burn injuries are injuries that can be of high or low voltage and result in variety of injuries ranging from skin burns to damage to internal organs including neurologic complications. Tissue damage can result directly from the current passing
Metasebia W. Abebe, Samuel Equar Alem
doaj   +2 more sources

Electrical Burns [PDF]

open access: hybridIndian Journal of Plastic Surgery, 1984
SummaryThe pathophysiology of electrical burns and the ways it differs from thermal turns are discussed.134 cases of electrical burns during 5 years period are presented, out of which only 25 cases required different types of specialised surgical management.
Ashok C. Shah
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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for a pediatric electrical burn: A case report

open access: goldBurns Open, 2020
Contact electrical burns are more severe than others forms of contact burn injury. We present a 2- year-old case of electric injury admitted 48 h after injury treated with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) at 1.45 ATA ≈ 100%O2 like adjuvant therapy.
Laura Marín   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Electrical Burns [PDF]

open access: goldInternational Wound Journal, 2014
Gordana Ristić, Ana Ravić‐Nikolić
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