Lightning Injuries - Electrical, Medical, and Legal Aspects (Paperback)

Lightning Injuries: Electrical, Medical, and Legal Aspects presents a thorough examination of injuries inflicted by lightning strikes. The expertise of acknowledged world authorities from three continents have been brought together to create this truly remarkable volume. Lightning Injuries: Electrical, Medical, and Legal Aspects begins with a short historical review featuring a discussion of the physics of lightning phenomena and the aspects of electrical circuit theory. This review provides the background for following chapters, which address topics such as the epidemiology of lightning injury, the pathogenesis of the features of lightning injury, the clinical aspects of managing patients with lightning injury, and lightning injury mediated by communications systems (including telephones). The book also describes the problem of finding protection against lightning strikes and the issues that arise in legal liability as a result of lightning strikes. The book is written for a diverse audience and includes material that makes it appropriate for all professionals in medical, legal, and technical fields. Never before has such a comprehensive collation of related facets of lightning injury been published within a single volume.

General

Imprint:	Crc Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2020
First published:	1992
Authors:	Christopher Joh Andrews
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	208
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-57259-4
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Accident & emergency medicine > General Promotions
LSN:	0-367-57259-1
Barcode:	9780367572594

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