Injury from lightning strike while using mobile phone elec. inj.

Patients

• One adult, United Kingdom

Endpoint

• ear injury
• long-term consequences (> 1 year): neurological sequels, muscle paralysis, hearing loss
• cardiovascular effects: cardiac failure

Exposure

• lightning
• touch current
• current entry and exit points: not specified

Comments on this article

• Althaus CW (2006): Injury from lightning strike while using mobile phone. Mobile phones are not lightning strike risk
• Faragher RM (2006): Injury from lightning strike while using mobile phone. Statistics and physics do not suggest a link