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Major Burns After Lightning Strikes at Field: Case Report
Journal of Agromedicine and Medical Sciences (AMS), 2022 Lightning injuries can cause multi-organ damage such as burns, ear damage, and nervous system damage. The type of Burns in this trauma consists of linear or flash burns, punctate burns, thermal injuries, Lichtenburg figures, and combination wounds which ...
Ulfa Elfiah, Wahyu Rachmadi Akbar
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Secondary maternal–fetal consequences to electrical injury: A literature review
Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2020 Electrical injuries can occur in pregnant women but currently their incidence is not completely known. Notwithstanding, those represent clinical important events such maternal and fetal death, which can be avoided if properly managed.
J.A. Caballero-Carvajal +3 more
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Lightning Related Deaths In Istanbul, Between 2007-2012
Journal of Contemporary Medicine, 2021 Objective: Lightning injuries can cause a variety of injuries including “integumentary system, cardiac system, central nervous system, eyes and ears, and blunt trauma”, in which some of them may cause death.
İpek Esen Melez +3 more
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ECG changes of lightning strike, mimicking acute myocardial infarction
IHJ Cardiovascular Case Reports, 2018 Lightning strike can cause injuries which are of no significance to fatal injuries or instantaneous death. Very few cases have been reported on ECG changes due to lightning strike.
Rajeev Bhardwaj
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F1000Research, 2016 Background: Lightning injury is a global public health issue. Low and middle-income countries in the tropical and subtropical regions of the world are most affected by lightning.
Animesh Biswas +5 more
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Emergency Medicine International, 2012 Principals. Lightning is one of the most powerful and spectacular natural phenomena. Lightning strikes to humans are uncommon but can cause devastating injuries.
Carmen A. Pfortmueller +5 more
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Healthcare in Low-resource Settings, 2013 Lightning injury is a global public health problem. It still exists as a major environmental threat in developing nations where majority of population lives in rural areas. The different mechanisms of lightning injury can result in a spectrum of injuries
Ahmed Armin +3 more
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Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2012 Introduction Lightning is the second most common storm-related cause of death. The mortality following lightning strike is 10% to 30% and a large proportion of these people suffer cardiopulmonary arrest at the time of the strike.
Figgis Patricia, Alvarez George
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Vision Pan-America, 2016 Secondary injuries caused by lightning strikes are not frequent; however survivors have important sequelae in organs and tissues. We describe two cases, the first one with lightning-induced maculopathy and the other case involves lens damage.
Jeanneth Eloyne Toquica +1 more
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Lightning monitoring and detection techniques: Progress and challenges in South Africa
South African Journal of Science, 2021 Globally, lightning causes significant injury, death, and damage to infrastructure annually. In comparison to the rest of the world, South Africa has one of the highest incidences of lightning-related injuries and deaths.
Maqsooda Mahomed +4 more
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