Citation

Baptiste O, Girer A, Foray J, Marsigny B. Chirurgie 1990; 116(1): 60-64.

Vernacular Title

Les accidents de fulguration en haute-montagne. A propos de 29 cas.

Affiliation

Service de Chirurgie de l'Hôpital de Chamonix-Mont-Blanc.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2226040

Abstract

Lightning, usually scarce, is a frequent phenomenon in high mountains. Due to our location at the foot of the Mont-Blanc, we have been able to examine twenty nine cases of people struck by lightning in the Chamonix Hospital. Lightning that has interested people since old times is the result of complex meteorological phenomenons, able to deliver a huge instant power. Several types of lightning have been described. They give different sorts of injuries; the most frequent affect the brain, the heart and the skin. The analysis of the results of seventeen victims admitted at the hospital does not allow to conclude to a clinical and biological specificity of the lightning stricken in high mountains. It makes it however possible to determine precisely the clinical disorders and the features of the injured and to emphasize the part due to the high mountains and consider the non specific therapeutic to set to work as soon as possible.

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