Neurologic, psychiatric, and cardiovascular complications in children struck by lightning elec. inj.

Patients

• 4 children (younger than 14 years), United States

Endpoint

• respiratory paralysis
• muscle paralysis
• unconsciousness
• neurological consequences (short-term, pain, headache, brain injury)
• death
• cardiovascular effects: arrhythmia, brain edema

Exposure

• lightning
• current entry and exit points: stated incompletely