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Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America
Lightning is a common environmental hazard, and is a significant cause of global injury and death. Care and evaluation should follow general trauma guidelines, but several unique aspects of lightning injuries necessitate deviations from standard care that can improve survival and overall outcomes.
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Lightning is a common environmental hazard, and is a significant cause of global injury and death. Care and evaluation should follow general trauma guidelines, but several unique aspects of lightning injuries necessitate deviations from standard care that can improve survival and overall outcomes.
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Injuries and deaths from lightning
Journal of Clinical Pathology, 2020 This paper reviews recent academic research into the pathology of trauma of lightning. Lightning may injure or kill in a variety of different ways. Aimed at the trainee, or practicing pathologist, this paper provides a clinicopathological approach.
R. Blumenthal
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Lightning and electrical injuries
Oxford Textbook of Medicine, 2010Lightning strikes are rare accidents but carry a 10% case fatality, killing 0.1 to 0.3 per million population each year. During thunderstorms, the risk is increased by sheltering under trees or by being on open water, on tractors, or in open fields or golf courses....
C. Andrews
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Survey on Characteristics of Lightning Injuries in Remote Area of Bangladesh and its Prevention
International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Information Communication Technology, 2021Lightning strikes are obvious in Bangladesh due to geographical location and it has very high potentiality to cause injuries even deaths. Lightning strike affects almost all internal body system due to the fact that huge amount of energy is passed ...
Md Rosaidul Mawla +2 more
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Lightning injuries: same incident, different injuries - A case series
Journal of Clinical and Medical Images, Case Reports, 2021Singapore, lying near the Equator, has one of the highest lightning activities in the world1. However, injuries related to this weather phenomenon were under-reported and rarely a subject of study.
M. Chia, H. K. Goh
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A Year of Global Lightning Deaths and Injuries
2023 12th Asia-Pacific International Conference on Lightning (APL), 2023In 2003, the author, with Dr. R. López, proposed an annual global toll of 24,000 lightning deaths. This estimate is based on multiplying 1) a fatality rate of six deaths per million people per year, times 2) four billion people living in lightning ...
R. Holle
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