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Lightning injury with lung bleeding in a tracheotomized patient
B Soltermann1, A Frutiger, M Kuhn
1Interdisciplinary ICU, Kantonsspital Chur, Switzerland.
Chest
|January 1, 1991
Abstract:
A 68-year-old man, who had undergone laryngectomy six months earlier, was struck by lightning and developed pulmonary hemorrhage. This was attributed to pulmonary barotrauma due to a lightning blast via his tracheostoma.