Multi-organ injuries due to a lightning strike: a case report highlighting the importance of a multi-disciplinary approach

The interdisciplinary management of patients with multiple organ injuries after lightning strike is of paramount importance. Cutaneous burns can be associated to other organ injuries requiring emergency and life-support treatment. We report the case of a lightning strike victim who presented with bu...

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Autores principales: Tadler, Marlene, Rüegg, Eva, Niquille, Marc, Gencer, Baris, Gautschi, Oliver P., Pittet-Cuénod, Brigitte, Modarressi, Ali
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5253516/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28164145
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23320885.2016.1275646
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author Tadler, Marlene
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Niquille, Marc
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Pittet-Cuénod, Brigitte
Modarressi, Ali
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description The interdisciplinary management of patients with multiple organ injuries after lightning strike is of paramount importance. Cutaneous burns can be associated to other organ injuries requiring emergency and life-support treatment. We report the case of a lightning strike victim who presented with burns as well as cardiologic and neurologic complications.
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spelling pubmed-52535162017-02-03 Multi-organ injuries due to a lightning strike: a case report highlighting the importance of a multi-disciplinary approach Tadler, Marlene Rüegg, Eva Niquille, Marc Gencer, Baris Gautschi, Oliver P. Pittet-Cuénod, Brigitte Modarressi, Ali Case Reports Plast Surg Hand Surg Case Report The interdisciplinary management of patients with multiple organ injuries after lightning strike is of paramount importance. Cutaneous burns can be associated to other organ injuries requiring emergency and life-support treatment. We report the case of a lightning strike victim who presented with burns as well as cardiologic and neurologic complications. Taylor & Francis 2017-01-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5253516/ /pubmed/28164145 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23320885.2016.1275646 Text en © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Tadler, Marlene
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Gencer, Baris
Gautschi, Oliver P.
Pittet-Cuénod, Brigitte
Modarressi, Ali
Multi-organ injuries due to a lightning strike: a case report highlighting the importance of a multi-disciplinary approach
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title_fullStr Multi-organ injuries due to a lightning strike: a case report highlighting the importance of a multi-disciplinary approach
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