Lightning injuries in a lightning city: a district hospital experience in Singapore [PDF]
Crit Care, 2012 Tropical Singapore's meterological profile makes it one of the world's lightning capitals. This study aims to assess the profile of the at-risk patient, and possibly identify factors predicting the length of hospital stay in patients with lightning ...
Mok Y, Tan P, Jagadesan R.
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Pattern of Lightning Related Injuries to Human in Bangladesh
Journal of Armed Forces Medical College BangladeshIntroduction: In recent past, the incident of lightning strikes and related injuries has increased significantly which is the detrimental consequence of climate change.
Nasrin Sultana +5 more
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Distribution of Lightning Accidents in Sri Lanka from 1974 to 2019 Using the DesInventar Database
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2021 The reported lightning accidents that are available in the DesInventar database—which consist of 549 deaths, 498 injured people, 39 destroyed houses, and 741 damaged houses—were analyzed in terms of their geographical and temporal variation.
Mahesh Edirisinghe +1 more
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Brief communication "A multi-disciplinary approach to a side-flash lightning incident to human beings in the Basque Country" [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2013 On 31 August 2011 a lightning incident affecting two human beings was registered in the Basque Country (northern Spain). The two individuals were sightseeing in the Painted Forest of Oma (province of Biscay, Basque Country) when an approaching ...
J. López +5 more
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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 Fatalities and Injuries in Nepal
Weather, Climate, and Society, 2021 Lightning is one of the most devastating hazards in Nepal because of a large amount of atmospheric water vapor coming from the Indian Ocean and a large orographic lifting of this moist air.
B. Adhikari
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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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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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The Underreporting of Lightning injuries and Deaths in Colorado [PDF]
, 1993 Raúl E. López +5 more
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