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Burns, 2008
Lightning is an uncommon but potentially devastating cause of injury in patients presenting to burn centers. These injuries feature unusual symptoms, high mortality, and significant long-term morbidity. This paper will review the epidemiology, physics, clinical presentation, management principles, and prevention of lightning injuries.
Melinda J. Morton +5 more
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Lightning is an uncommon but potentially devastating cause of injury in patients presenting to burn centers. These injuries feature unusual symptoms, high mortality, and significant long-term morbidity. This paper will review the epidemiology, physics, clinical presentation, management principles, and prevention of lightning injuries.
Melinda J. Morton +5 more
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Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1995
Abstract Lightning is one of nature’s powerful traumatic forces. Cloud-to-ground lightning flashes have peak currents of 20,000 to 40,000 amps at hundreds of millions of volts and can reach temperatures as high as 60,0000F. Researchers in the early twentyfirst century have provided evidence that lightning is associated with the intense ...
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Abstract Lightning is one of nature’s powerful traumatic forces. Cloud-to-ground lightning flashes have peak currents of 20,000 to 40,000 amps at hundreds of millions of volts and can reach temperatures as high as 60,0000F. Researchers in the early twentyfirst century have provided evidence that lightning is associated with the intense ...
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Epidemiology of Lightning Related Deaths and Injuries in Bangladesh in 2018
Bangladesh Medical Research Council BulletinBackground: A lightning strike is an electric discharge between atmosphere and an object. It can produce severe injuries and deaths. Worldwide, mortality from lightning is estimated at between 0.2 and 1.7 deaths per 1000000 population, affecting mainly ...
Mohammad Kamruzzaman Khan +2 more
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Electrical Injuries and Lightning
Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 1992Prolonged cardiopulmonary resuscitation is key to the resuscitation of lightning strike victims. Multiple accounts exist of successful revival of victims thought to be "dead" or in patients who have what is often believed to be unresuscitatable cardiac dysrhythmia.
Brian J. Browne, Wade R. Gaasch
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Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 1983
Lightning victims who survive the initial insult can usually be treated conservatively, supportively, and expectantly.
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Lightning victims who survive the initial insult can usually be treated conservatively, supportively, and expectantly.
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Lightning and thermal injuries
2014Electrical burns are classified as either high voltage (1000 volts and higher) or low voltage (
Richard L. Gamelli, Arthur P. Sanford
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Keraunoparalysis, a ‘specific’ lightning injury
Burns, 1985Lightning paralysis or keraunoparalysis, a transient paralysis associated with extreme vasoconstriction and sensory disturbances of one or more extremities as a result of lightning impact is described in two patients.
ten Henk Jan Duis +2 more
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Lightning deaths and injuries in the Brazilian Amazon Region in the period of 2009-2019
2019 International Symposium on Lightning Protection (XV SIPDA), 2019This paper investigates humans accidents caused by lightning in the Legal Amazon region in Brazil. The main goal of this work is to develop statistical analyses of lightning deaths and Injuries, in order to measure an extension of the damage caused by ...
Eduardo R. Ferreira +5 more
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Lightning and Electrical Injuries
Neurologic Clinics, 1992Lightning and electrical injuries are similar in that both produce immediate tissue injury from burn and trauma induced by fall and both can arrest the heart and respiratory center. Immediate support of circulation and respiration is life-saving. Subsequently the nervous system may show signs of injury, and seizures, cerebral edema, and muscle and ...
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The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care, 1999
In this article, we present our experience of group lightning injury. Individual injuries are most common after single strikes. The largest group previously reported was 10 patients. In our series, 17 victims were hit by a single strike; 11 were admitted to the hospital and 6 were discharged from the accident and emergency department.
Jan D. Smith +3 more
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In this article, we present our experience of group lightning injury. Individual injuries are most common after single strikes. The largest group previously reported was 10 patients. In our series, 17 victims were hit by a single strike; 11 were admitted to the hospital and 6 were discharged from the accident and emergency department.
Jan D. Smith +3 more
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