BACKGROUND
Electrical injuries are relatively common and occur mostly at home or as
a result of work accidents. Approximately 1000 deaths per year are due
to electrical injuries in the United States, with a mortality rate of
3-5%1. Cardiac involvement is rare, yet poses the
most serious manifestations with high mortality
rate2-4. In the vast majority of cases, the symptoms
occur immediately after the incident and only in rare cases delayed
manifestations observed5-6. The pathogenesis isn’t
fully understood but vitro studies and post mortem autopsies reveled
that, in selective patients, electrocution injury progress into
permanent scar with late cardiac manifestation as
arrhythmia7-13.