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Lightning injuries are divided into direct strikes, side splash, contact injury, and ground current. [1] Ground current occurs when the lightning strikes nearby and travels to the person through the ground. [1] Side splash makes up about a third of cases and occurs when lightning strikes nearby and jumps through the air to the person. [1]
The lightning burned my chest and my spinal cord from the inside, leaving me with a spinal cord injury, something I didn’t find out about until three months after the incident. The bolt then ...
As Thalita Teixeira Padilla was struck by lightning, had a spinal cord injury, burns, nerve damage. After 1 year of rehab, she's going home. 'A whole new life': Nurse struck by lightning leaves ...
The Chicago Electrical Trauma Rehabilitation Institute (CETRI), was founded in Chicago, Illinois in 2009 by a team of scientists and physicians for the purpose of finding more effective medical intervention strategies to increase neuromuscular, neurosensory and neuropsychological function recovery in electrical and lightning injury survivors.
Being hit directly by a lightning bolt and becoming part of the main channel of electricity flowing from the cloud to the ground is one of the least common ways to be struck by lightning, Dr. Mary ...
Contact injury – an object (generally a conductor) that a person is touching is electrified by a strike. Side splash – branches of currents "jumping" from the primary flash channel electrify the person. Blast injuries – being thrown and suffering blunt-force trauma from the shock wave (if very close) and possible hearing damage from the ...
Electrical injury; Other names: Electrical shock: Lightning injury caused by a nearby lightning strike. The slight branching redness (sometimes called a Lichtenberg figure) travelling up the leg was caused by the effects of current. Specialty: Emergency medicine: Complications: Burns, rhabdomyolysis, cardiac arrest, bone fractures [1] Frequency
An Ohio teen is back in school after being struck by lightning. Last June, 13-year-old Ethan Kadish and two other children were playing frisbee at summer camp when a bolt of lightning struck the boys.