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Electrical Burn Injuries

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Electrical injuries (EI) are a common yet underappreciated injury in the work-field. More importantly, the short-term and long-term sequelae of an EI can be devastating. This chapter discusses the classification, assessment, initial treatments, acute and long-term treatments of EI. An important aspect that is currently under-recognized is long-term outcomes and the inability to return to work or even return to a good quality of life.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Jessica Shih

  2. Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Jessica Shih & Marc G. Jeschke

  3. Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Marc G. Jeschke

  4. Biological Sciences, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Marc G. Jeschke

  5. Ross Tilley Burn Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Marc G. Jeschke

  6. Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Marc G. Jeschke

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  2. Division of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

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  3. Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

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  4. Department of Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA

    Steven E. Wolf

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Shih, J., Jeschke, M.G. (2020). Electrical Burn Injuries. In: Jeschke, M., Kamolz, LP., Sjöberg, F., Wolf, S. (eds) Handbook of Burns Volume 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18940-2_39

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