High-Voltage Electrical Brain Injury elec. inj.

Patients

• One adult, Taiwan

Endpoint

• burns
• seizures
• multiple organ failures
• unconsciousness
• neurological consequences (short-term, pain, headache, brain injury)
• death
• hypotonic polyuria, brain stem compression
• cardiovascular effects: subarachnoid hemorrhage, cerebellar and cerebral infarction

Exposure

• electric injuries/electrocution, touch current, 50/60 Hz, high voltage ≥ 1 kV AC, occupational
• power transmission line
• current entry and exit points: specified