Electrical Trauma

The Pathophysiology, Manifestations and Clinical Management
Herausgeber: Lee, R. C.; Burke, J. F.; Cravalho, E. G.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This comprehensive 1992 treatise was the first on electrical trauma in humans.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 458
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 738g
• ISBN-13: 9780521116145
• ISBN-10: 0521116147
• Artikelnr.: 33609780

Inhaltsangabe

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.