Late onset quadriparesis in high voltage electrical burn – A case report
Electrical burn injuries are injuries that can be of high or low voltage and result in variety of injuries ranging from skin burns to damage to internal organs including neurologic complications. Tissue damage can result directly from the current passing through the body or conversion of the electri...
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| description | Electrical burn injuries are injuries that can be of high or low voltage and result in variety of injuries ranging from skin burns to damage to internal organs including neurologic complications. Tissue damage can result directly from the current passing through the body or conversion of the electrical energy to heat energy as it is met with various levels of resistance within the different tissues in the body. Neurologic complications can be of early or late onset in electrical injuries and show variable levels of recovery over long period of time. We have presented here a patient that sustained high voltage electrical burn and developed late onset quadriparesis that significantly improved within a period of one week following the initiation of dexamethasone. Multidisciplinary approach and long term follow up of such patients is necessary to achieve best possible outcome |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c4321c8e36144f0a96f5c27497d98c9f2022-12-22T02:03:36ZengElsevierBurns Open2468-91222022-10-0164169172Late onset quadriparesis in high voltage electrical burn – A case reportMetasebia W. Abebe0Samuel Equar Alem1Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Saint Paul Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Corresponding author.Neurosurgery, Saint Paul Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, EthiopiaElectrical burn injuries are injuries that can be of high or low voltage and result in variety of injuries ranging from skin burns to damage to internal organs including neurologic complications. Tissue damage can result directly from the current passing through the body or conversion of the electrical energy to heat energy as it is met with various levels of resistance within the different tissues in the body. Neurologic complications can be of early or late onset in electrical injuries and show variable levels of recovery over long period of time. We have presented here a patient that sustained high voltage electrical burn and developed late onset quadriparesis that significantly improved within a period of one week following the initiation of dexamethasone. Multidisciplinary approach and long term follow up of such patients is necessary to achieve best possible outcomehttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468912222000220BurnElectrical injuriesNeurologic symptomsQuadriparesis |
| spellingShingle | Metasebia W. Abebe Samuel Equar Alem Late onset quadriparesis in high voltage electrical burn – A case report Burns Open Burn Electrical injuries Neurologic symptoms Quadriparesis |
| title | Late onset quadriparesis in high voltage electrical burn – A case report |
| title_full | Late onset quadriparesis in high voltage electrical burn – A case report |
| title_fullStr | Late onset quadriparesis in high voltage electrical burn – A case report |
| title_full_unstemmed | Late onset quadriparesis in high voltage electrical burn – A case report |
| title_short | Late onset quadriparesis in high voltage electrical burn – A case report |
| title_sort | late onset quadriparesis in high voltage electrical burn a case report |
| topic | Burn Electrical injuries Neurologic symptoms Quadriparesis |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468912222000220 |
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