Lightning Injuries
Electrical, Medical, and Legal Aspects
1st Edition
Published on 18. December 1991
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-0-8493-5458-8 (ISBN)
Description
Lightning Injuries: Electrical, Medical, and Legal Aspects presents a thorough examination of injuries inflicted by lightning strikes. The expertise of acknowledged world authorities from three continents have been brought together to create this truly remarkable volume.
Lightning Injuries: Electrical, Medical, and Legal Aspects begins with a short historical review featuring a discussion of the physics of lightning phenomena and the aspects of electrical circuit theory. This review provides the background for following chapters, which address topics such as the epidemiology of lightning injury, the pathogenesis of the features of lightning injury, the clinical aspects of managing patients with lightning injury, and lightning injury mediated by communications systems (including telephones). The book also describes the problem of finding protection against lightning strikes and the issues that arise in legal liability as a result of lightning strikes.
The book is written for a diverse audience and includes material that makes it appropriate for all professionals in medical, legal, and technical fields. Never before has such a comprehensive collation of related facets of lightning injury been published within a single volume.
Lightning Injuries: Electrical, Medical, and Legal Aspects begins with a short historical review featuring a discussion of the physics of lightning phenomena and the aspects of electrical circuit theory. This review provides the background for following chapters, which address topics such as the epidemiology of lightning injury, the pathogenesis of the features of lightning injury, the clinical aspects of managing patients with lightning injury, and lightning injury mediated by communications systems (including telephones). The book also describes the problem of finding protection against lightning strikes and the issues that arise in legal liability as a result of lightning strikes.
The book is written for a diverse audience and includes material that makes it appropriate for all professionals in medical, legal, and technical fields. Never before has such a comprehensive collation of related facets of lightning injury been published within a single volume.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Bosa Roca
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
18 s/w Tabellen, 23 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
23 Halftones, black and white; 18 Tables, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8493-5458-8 (9780849354588)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
RELIGION, SCIENCE AND MYTHOLOGY - LIGHTNING THROUGH THE AGES (M.A. COOPER AND C.J. ANDREWS). Religion. Science. Modern Mythology. PHYSICS OF LIGHTNING PHENOMENA (M.A. UMAN). How Much Lightning Is There. Sources of LIghtning. Types of Lightning. Cloud-to-Ground Lightning. Thunder. Mechanisms for Lightning Damage. ELECTRICAL ASPECTS OF LIGHTNING INJURY AND DAMAGE (M. DARVENIZA). Electrical Circuit Models. The Lightning Stroke as a Current Source. The Effects of Lightning Current Flow on Stricken Objects. Measurement of Lightning Currents and Voltages. Appendix - Electrical Circuits. OCCURRENCE OF LIGHTNING DEATH AND INJURY (D. MACKERRAS). Sources of Information. Historical Trends in Lightning Caused Death and Injury Rates. Lightning Caused Injury Rates. Distribution of Lightning Caused Death by Sex. Distribution of Lightning Caused Death By Age. Type of Location and Activity of Persons When Killed By Lightning. Seasonal and Diurnal Variation in the Occurrence of Lightning-Caused Deaths. Inferred World-Wide Lightning Death Rate. Conclusion. THE CLINICAL PRESENTATION OF THE LIGHTNING VICTIM (C.J. ANDREWS AND M.A. COOPER). A Numerical and Case Study Perspective. Cardiorespiratory Systems. Neurological System. Psychiatric Aspects. Ocular System. Cochleovestibular System. Renal, Gastrointestinal, Metabolic, Endocrine Systems. Musculoskeletal System. Skin and Burns. Differential Diagnosis. Death From Lightning Injury. PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF LIGHTNING INJURY (C.J. ANDREWS, M. EADIE, H. TEN DUIS, R. CASH, B. RAPHAEL, M.MEYER, F. FRAUNFELDER, LAV. BERGSTROM, AND H. TEN DUIS). Cardiorespiratory Systems. Neurological System. Keraunoparalysis. Psychopathology. Ocular System. Cochleovestibular System. Musculoskeletal System and Skin, Including Burns. Renal, Gastrointestinal, Metabolic, Endocrine Systems. TREATMENT OF LIGHTNING INJURY (M.A. COOPER, R. PARKES, M.MEYER, F.FRAUNFELDER, LAV. BERGSTROM, S. PEGG, S. DOLLINGER). Introduction and First Aid. Emergency Room Management. Intensive Care Management. Inpatient Management in the Ward Situation, Post ICU or as Initial Disposal. Special Aspects of Ocular Management. Special Aspects of Otologic Management. Special Management of Burns. Psychological Management. LIGHTNING INJURIES - FOLLOWUP AND PROGNOSIS (M.A. COOPER). PROTECTION FROM LIGHTNING (D. MACKERRAS). Physical Basis for Lightning Protection. Mechanisms for the Interception of Part or All of the Lightning Current By a Person. Other Mechanisms for Producing Current Flow in the Body. Effects of Lightning Current on Parts of Structures. Effects of Lightning on Electrical Equipment. Protection of Persons Against Injury By Lightning. Recommended Action for Persons Caught in a High-Risk Situation in a Thunderstorm. Engineering Actions to Reduce Risk to Persons in Public Places. Protection of Structures Against Damage By Lightning. Conclusions Concerning Protection of Persons and Buildings Against Damage By Lightning. LEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF LIGHTNING DEATH, INJURY, AND DAMAGE (J. KRUPNICK, J. UMAN, K. GELB). APPENDIX A-SPECIAL ASPECTS OF TELEPHONE-MEDIATED INJURY (C.J. ANDREWS, M. DARVENIZA, AND B. HOCKING). Medical and Technical Aspects. An Australian Reporting Procedure. INDEX.