CONCLUSION
Electrical injury causes various arrhythmias, mostly at the time of the
incident. Physicians and patients should be aware of delayed effect of
severe arrhythmia following electrocution. Patients should be followed
up and monitored for 24 hours in cases of unwitnessed event, exposure to
high voltage, prolonged tetany, extensive soft tissue injuries or when
they have a history of loss of consciousness or ECG abnormalities.
Physician should pay attention to current pathway, assume by noticeable
burns. Patients should be followed up for several months by
multi-discipline physicians, among them, a cardiologist, neurologist,
psychiatrist and a physiotherapist.
DECLERATIONS
- Ethics approval – N/A
- Consent for publication – consent form was signed by the
patient. Any patient-related data described in the case will be
confidential.
- Availability of data and materials – The datasets used
and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the
corresponding author on reasonable request
- Competing interests – The authors declare that they have no
competing interests
- Funding - The authors have not declared a specific grant for
this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or
not-for-profit sectors.
- Authors’ contributions –OK and ER contributed to the
writing, editing, formatting of the main manuscript, and production of
the figures. EP and YT provided care to the patient and revised the
manuscript. All authors have contributed and met the criteria for
authorship.
- Acknowledgements – n/a