Electrical injury
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- Electrical injury is frequently associated with explosions or falls that can cause additional traumatic injuries, including both obvious external injuries and concealed internal injuries.
- Symptoms Often, the main symptom of an electrical injury is a skin burn (see Burns), although not all electrical injuries cause external damage.
- Although the cause of an electrical injury is often obvious, these injuries can be overlooked at the time they occur.
- More detailed technical information on electrical injury is given in the standard BS PD 6519 "Guide to the effects of current on human beings and livestock - Part 1: General aspects.
- Furthermore, clinical experience with biopsy diagnosis of torture-related electrical injury is limited, and the diagnosis can usually be made with confidence from the history and physical examination alone.
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