Electric injury, Part II: Specific injuries

Electric injury can cause disruption of cardiac rhythm and breathing, burns , fractures, dislocations, rhabdomyolysis, eye and ear injury, oral and gas trointestinal injury, vascular damage, disseminated intravascular coagulati on, peripheral and spinal cord injury, and Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, Se condary trauma from falls, fires, flying debris, and inhalation injury can complicate the clinical picture. Diagnostic and treatment considerations fo r electric injuries are described in this article, which is the second part of a three-part series on electric injuries. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Inc .