Lightning injury: two case histories and a review of management elec. inj.

Patients

• 2 adults and children (younger than 14 years), United Kingdom

Endpoint

• burns
• current marks/necrosis
• respiratory paralysis
• unconsciousness
• neurological consequences (short-term, pain, headache, brain injury)
• death
• gastrointestinal dilation, swelling and herniation of the brain stem
• cardiovascular effects: arrhythmia, cardiac failure

Exposure

• lightning
• current entry and exit points: specified