Electrical Burns

The management of electrical burns.

Delayed myelopathy: a rare complication of severe electrical burns.

High-tension Electrical Burns: Report of Two Cases.

High-tension electrical burns are a rare but devastating form of injury. The objective of this case report is to bring to the fore the severity of this rare form of injury and highlight the benefits of active surgical management of such a condition. We report the cases of two patients who were managed for high-tension electrical burns and highlight the main features of their presentation and ma...

Oral electrical burns in children-early treatment and appliance fabrication

A case report of an electrical burn oF the lips in a 22-month-old child is presented. The principles oF early medical and dental treatment and the sequence of appliance Fabrication are detailed. The appliance Fabrication utilized in this case is unique because it is an intraoral treatment approach to a commissural burn in a child that had not yet erupted primary second

Copper wire theft and high voltage electrical burns.

High voltage electrical burns are uncommon. However in the midst of our economic recession we are noticing an increasing number of these injuries. Copper wire is a valuable commodity with physical properties as an excellent conductor of electricity making it both ubiquitous in society and prized on the black market. We present two consecutive cases referred to the National Burns Unit who sustai...