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The electrophysiology of electrocution. [PDF]
Heart Rhythm O2, 2023 Electrocution is a death caused by an application of electrical current to the human body. Our present understanding of electrocution-as the induction of ventricular fibrillation (VF)-followed a nearly century-long path of misunderstandings and speculation primarily focused on hypotheses of asphyxia as well as central nervous system trauma.
Kroll MW +3 more
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Electrocution as an alternative euthanasia method to blunt force trauma to the head followed by exsanguination for non-viable piglets [PDF]
Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica, 2020 Background On farms, the currently approved and most widely practised method of euthanising non-viable piglets is blunt force trauma to the head followed by exsanguination.
Johannes Husheer +4 more
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Filicide by Electrocution [PDF]
International Journal of Medical Toxicology and Forensic Medicine, 2019 Background: Filicide is the term to describe the homicide of the child performed by one of the parents or both. Many different methods and devices may be used for these types of murders, for example, asphyxia, planned car accidents, stabbing by knife ...
Fares Najari +2 more
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Suicidal death caused by electrocution: Two case reports [PDF]
Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, 2004 Suicides by electrocution are extremly rare in our country. In these cases, specific or characteristic external lesions caused through contact with conductors at the sites of entry and exit of the current, as well as general autopsy findings, and ...
Nikolić Slobodan +2 more
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Пернатые хищники и их охрана, 2023 Medium-voltage power lines are one of the most important mortality factors of raptors in Slovakia. Among the frequent victims of electrocution are also rare species, such as the Imperial Eagle (Aquila heliaca).
Marek Gális +2 more
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Drivers of power line collisions and electrocutions of birds in Nepal [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Among the several anthropogenic factors, power lines are increasingly regarded as one of the most significant hazards to bird species, primarily owing to collisions and electrocutions.
Suman Hamal +3 more
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Radiofrequency electrocution (196 MHz) [PDF]
Occupational Medicine, 1999 Radiofrequency (RF) electrocutions are uncommon. A case of electrocution at 196 MHz is presented partly because there are no previous reports with frequencies as high as this, and partly to assist in safety standard setting. A 53-year-old technician received two brief exposures to both hands of 2A current at 196 MHz. He did not experience shock or burn.
Bruce Hocking, R. A. Westerman
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ELECTRICAL PHENOMENA AND ELECTROCUTION BURNS [PDF]
Romanian Medical Journal, 2018 Introduction. In Romania the number of electrocutions has risen significantly in the last ten years compared to figures in other European countries.
Georgiana Nadia Galatanu +1 more
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A Battered Child or Electrocution?
Arab Journal of Forensic Sciences & Forensic Medicine, 2019 The dead body of a 13-year-old boy was transferred from the Department of Forensic Medicine in Al-Qadisiya Health Directorate, Al-Qadisiya province to the main medico-legal directorate in Baghdad.
Nabeel G. Hashim +2 more
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