An Unusual Case of Lightning Injury elec. inj.

Patients

• 3 adults and children (younger than 14 years), India

Endpoint

• burns
• current marks/necrosis
• eye injury (cateract)
• unconsciousness
• neurological consequences (short-term, pain, headache, brain injury)
• death
• perforations in the terminal ileum and the descending colon

Exposure

• lightning
• current entry and exit points: specified