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PNEUMOTHORAX FOLLOWING ELECTRICAL BURN INJURY: A CASE REPORT

Shashi Rekha, Krishna Prasad, Vijay Agrawal

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Electrical injuries are a common occurrence and they can be very trivial or fatal depending on the voltage.Electrical current causes tissue damage by producing heat due to local tissue resistance. Sometimes patients present with visceral damage, organ perforation or pneumothorax. Pneumothorax as an immediate complication of electrical burn injury is a rare entity since, it usually develops two days after significant electrical injury. We report one such treated case of electrical burn injury with right sided pneumothorax as an immediate complication.The outlook is very good in patients who survived the initial electrical exposure and received prompt treatment of complications.

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Electrical injuries are a common occurrence and they can be very trivial or fatal depending on the voltage.Electrical current causes tissue damage by producing heat due to local tissue resistance. Sometimes patients present with visceral damage, organ perforation or pneumothorax. Pneumothorax as an immediate complication of electrical burn injury is a rare entity since, it usually develops two days after significant electrical injury. We report one such treated case of electrical burn injury with right sided pneumothorax as an immediate complication.The outlook is very good in patients who survived the initial electrical exposure and received prompt treatment of complications.

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Electrical injuries are a common occurrence and they can be very trivial or fatal depending on the voltage.Electrical current causes tissue damage by producing heat due to local tissue resistance. Sometimes patients present with visceral damage, organ perforation or pneumothorax. Pneumothorax as an immediate complication of electrical burn injury is a rare entity since, it usually develops two days after significant electrical injury. We report one such treated case of electrical burn injury with right sided pneumothorax as an immediate complication.The outlook is very good in patients who survived the initial electrical exposure and received prompt treatment of complications.

Key concepts: Medicine, Electrical burn, Pneumothorax, Electrical Injuries, Complication, Surgery, Perforation, Burn injury

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