The Dangerous Life of a Storm Chaser: A Lightning Strike Injury Causing Serious Injury

Lightning strikes to people are rare events that cause significant injuries and mortality when they do occur. We describe an uncommon case of a storm chaser in Oklahoma who was struck by lightning who suffered cutaneous burns, bilateral tympanic membrane ruptures, as well as pulmonary edema, which i...

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Autores principales: Shipman, Jeffrey, Carver, Brittany, Painter, Kelly, Shipman, Stacia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7262986/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32462924
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2324709620925566
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description Lightning strikes to people are rare events that cause significant injuries and mortality when they do occur. We describe an uncommon case of a storm chaser in Oklahoma who was struck by lightning who suffered cutaneous burns, bilateral tympanic membrane ruptures, as well as pulmonary edema, which is an atypical finding in survivors. This case report highlights several injury patterns seen in lightning strike cases and provides evidence that these patients should be managed at a center with multidisciplinary services available.
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spelling pubmed-72629862020-06-10 The Dangerous Life of a Storm Chaser: A Lightning Strike Injury Causing Serious Injury Shipman, Jeffrey Carver, Brittany Painter, Kelly Shipman, Stacia J Investig Med High Impact Case Rep Case Report Lightning strikes to people are rare events that cause significant injuries and mortality when they do occur. We describe an uncommon case of a storm chaser in Oklahoma who was struck by lightning who suffered cutaneous burns, bilateral tympanic membrane ruptures, as well as pulmonary edema, which is an atypical finding in survivors. This case report highlights several injury patterns seen in lightning strike cases and provides evidence that these patients should be managed at a center with multidisciplinary services available. SAGE Publications 2020-05-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7262986/ /pubmed/32462924 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2324709620925566 Text en © 2020 American Federation for Medical Research https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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