Cardiac Monitoring Of Children With Household Electrical Injuries

• Published in: Annals of emergency medicine Vol. 25; no. 5; pp. 612 - 617
• Main Authors: Bailey, Benoit, Gaudreault, Pierre, Thivierge, Robert L, Turgeon, Jean P
• Format: Journal Article Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Mosby, Inc 01.05.1995; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adolescent; Anesthesia. Intensive care medicine. Transfusions. Cell therapy and gene therapy; Arrhythmias, Cardiac - blood; Arrhythmias, Cardiac - diagnosis; Arrhythmias, Cardiac - etiology; Arrhythmias, Cardiac - physiopathology; Biological and medical sciences; Child; Child, Preschool; Creatine Kinase - blood; Electric Injuries - blood; Electric Injuries - complications; Electric Injuries - physiopathology; Electrocardiography; Emergency and intensive care: neonates and children. Prematurity. Sudden death; Emergency Service, Hospital; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Infant; Intensive care medicine; Male; Medical sciences; Monitoring, Physiologic; Retrospective Studies; Time Factors; Heart; Human; Heart rate; Cardiac performance; Intensive care; Indication; Electrical injury; Circulatory system; Trauma; Child; Monitoring

Study objective: Because death has occurred with injury involving voltage as low as 50 to 60 V (probably the result of arrhythmias), we wanted to evaluate the necessity of cardiac monitoring in children sustaining electrical injuries with 120 or 240 V. Design: The charts of 151 children who presente...