Citation

Cherington M, Krider EP, Yarnell PR, Breed DW. Neurology 1997; 48(3): 683-686.

Affiliation

Lightning Data Center, St. Anthony Hospital, Denver, CO 80204, USA.

Comment In:

Neurology 1998;50(3):830.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9065548

Abstract

We report an extraordinary event of a lightning strike to the head of a helmeted bicyclist that occurred under fair weather conditions with a cloudless sky. The patient sustained a cardiac arrest and hypoxic encephalopathy with residual neurologic impairment. With the availability of highly developed meteorologic equipment, we were able to determine that the lightning "bolt from the blue" probably originated in a thunderstorm that was about 16 km away and obscured by the mountains.

Language: en