Electrical Trauma: The Pathophysiology, Manifestations and Clinical Management

by Edited by R. C. Lee , E. G. Cravalho , J. F. Burke

• ISBN13: 9780521116145
• ISBN10: 0521116147
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-06-09
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This comprehensive 1992 treatise was the first on electrical trauma in humans. Several of the world's leading experts describe the basic mechanisms of tissue injury in victims of electrical trauma, the complex and varied manifestations of electrical trauma, and clinical treatment protocols. Coverage of the topic is broad, ranging from mathematical models of molecular processes to intra-operative clinical care. The volume describes the basic physiochemical mechanisms responsible for tissue damage and explains the complex and variable ways in which electrical trauma manifests itself. Electrical Trauma serves as an important source of information from a variety of perspectives that contribute to the understanding of the electrical injury problem and development of rational therapy. It is suitable for clinicians in trauma surgery, emergency medicine, plastic surgery, intensive care and burns units and for those with an academic and research interest in the mechanisms and causes of electrical trauma.

Table of Contents

Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction:

Electrical burns: a historical review

Industrial electrical accidents and their complications observed by Electricité

The pathophysiology and clinical management of electrical injury

Clinical Manifestations and Management:

Soft tissue patterns in acute electric burns

The spectrum of electrical injuries

Electrical trauma: pathophysiology and clinical management

Acute and delayed neurological sequelae of electrical injury

Paediatric electrical burns

Surgical technique for salvage of electrically damaged tissue

Tissue Responses:

The role of arachidonic acid metabolism in the pathogenesis of electrical trauma

Thermal damage: mechanisms, patterns and detection in electrical burns

Evaluation of electrical burn injury using an electrical impedance technique

Impedance spectroscopy: the measurement of electrical impedance of biological materials

Analysis of heat injury to the upper extremity of electric shock victims: a theoretical model

Biophysical Mechanisms of Cellular Injury:

Response of cells to supra-physiological temperatures: experimental measurements and kinetic models

Cell membrane rupture by strong electric fields: prompt and delayed processes

An anisotropic, elastomechanical instability theory for electropermeabilisation of bilayer-lipid membranes

Electrical injury to heart muscle cells

Skeletal muscle cell membrane electrical breakdown in electrical trauma

Theory of non-linear conduction in cell membranes under strong electric fields

Index

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