Citation

Campbell DC, Nano T, Pegg SP. Burns 1996; 22(4): 328-330.

Affiliation

Burns Unit, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Herston, Queensland, Australia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8781732

Abstract

High-voltage electrical injury has been well documented in a number of situations, such as the occupational hazard of linesmen and construction workers, and in the context of overhead railway power lines. Two cases of hang-glider pilots contacting 11,000-volt power lines have recently been treated in the Royal Brisbane Hospital Burns Unit. They demonstrate an interesting pattern of injury, not described in current burns literature, involving both hand and lower abdominal burns. Both patients sustained full-thickness patches of burn injury, with underlying muscle damage and peripheral neurological injury. This distribution of injury seems to be closely related to the design of the hang glider.

Language: en