After an arc flash burn: "An almost normal life"

The most common sites for such accidents due to electricity are power stations, which are often unsupervised and thus allow people free access, thus making it possible for them to come into contact with high-voltage cables.

Such contact is therefore generally the result of professional incompetence, technical negligence, or - not infrequently - excessive curiosity.

Usually, after such patients have been given first aid by ambulance personnel, they are sent on to more specialized facilities, like the patient in this report, who was transferred from a regional hospital to a burns and plastic surgery center at a university hospital.

In most cases, after emergency treatment, patients have to undergo limb amputations, giving rise to serious rehabilitation problems that are not only medical but also social. Patients with electrical burn injury who have suffered amputation of two limbs are not rare, and there are even records of four-limb amputations.

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