Electrical Trauma

Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. Introduction: 1. Electrical burns: a historical review T. Bernstein; 2. Industrial electrical accidents and their complications observed by Electricité de France J. Cabanes; 3. The pathophysiology and clinical management of electrical injury R. C. Lee; Part II. Clinical Manifestations and Management: 4. Soft tissue patterns in acute electric burns J. L. Hunt; 5. The spectrum of electrical injuries E. A. Luce; 6. Electrical trauma: pathophysiology and clinical management R. H. Demling; 7. Acute and delayed neurological sequelae of electrical injury B. J. Grube and D. M. Heimbach; 8. Paediatric electrical burns C. F. Keusch, G. H. Gifford and E. Eriksson; 9. Surgical technique for salvage of electrically damaged tissue L. J. Gottlieb, J. Saunders and T. J. Krizek; Part III. Tissue Responses: 10. The role of arachidonic acid metabolism in the pathogenesis of electrical trauma M. C. Robson; P. G. Hayward and J. P. Heggers; 11. Thermal damage: mechanisms, patterns and detection in electrical burns P. Héroux; 12. Evaluation of electrical burn injury using an electrical impedance technique M. Chilbert; 13. Impedance spectroscopy: the measurement of electrical impedance of biological materials R. Schmukler; 14. Analysis of heat injury to the upper extremity of electric shock victims: a theoretical model B. I. Tropea and R. C. Lee; Part IV: Biophysical Mechanisms of Cellular Injury: 15. Response of cells to supra-physiological temperatures: experimental measurements and kinetic models E. G. Cravalho, M. Toner, D. C. Gaylor and R. C. Lee; 16. Cell membrane rupture by strong electric fields: prompt and delayed processes J. C. Weaver; 17. An anisotropic, elastomechanical instability theory for electropermeabilisation of bilayer-lipid membranes C. Maldarelli and K. Stebe; 18. Electrical injury to heart muscle cells L. Tung; 19. Skeletal muscle cell membrane electrical breakdown in electrical trauma D. C. Gaylor, D. L. Bhatt and R. C. Lee; 20. Theory of non-linear conduction in cell membranes under strong electric fields R. C. Lee and K. Prakah-Asante; Index.