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Case report of a 13-year-old struck by lightning
S P Courtman1, P M Wilson, Q Mok
1Department of Paediatric Intensive Care, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, London, UK. simon@barrels.freeserve.co.uk
Paediatric Anaesthesia
|January 22, 2003
Abstract:
Lightning strikes kill 1,000 people per year worldwide. Cardiac arrests resulting from lightning strikes have good survival rates but there is a significant degree of morbidity amongst the survivors. This is the case report of a 13-year-old boy who had a cardiac arrest following a direct lightning strike, and his subsequent management.