حروق التوتر العالي : إمراضيه عالية هل يمكن تجنبها ؟

الملخص EN

Background &Objective: High Voltage Electrical burns are considered to be part of serious injuries which usually accompanied by several types of damages, suchas cardiac injury, tissue loss, and other injuries.

Very often, the real size and depth of this burn is larger and deeper than what it looks at the surface of injury at entry and exit points.

Managing this type of injury requires several, long and complicated surgical procedures.

It is very often these injuries result with variable levels of obvious functional disability.

The aims of this study were to highlight the nature of these types of injuries, to show the need for several and complicated procedures, and to present the incidence of functional disability in majority of cases.

Finally, it is to find out if these injuries could be justified and if they could be avoided.

Methods & Material: 30 cases of High Voltage Electrical burns were included in this study.

We looked at types of injuries, managements and analyzed the results.

All cases were admitted to hospital from 2007 to 2014.

Results: In all cases, with the exception of on, there was no connection to sectors of electricity or high voltage current.

All cases, but one, were younger than 36 years old.

Average hospital stay was 31 days.

Average no of performed procedures for each patient was 4.4.

All patients had at least an amputation of a limb or part of a limb.

All patients ended with variable degrees of disability.

Conclusions: High Voltage Electrical Burns in our country are accomaanied with in high morbidity and require complicated managements.

There was anumber for explanations that these Burns occur apart from lack of awareness (education) and absence of implementation of laws (legislations).

Therefore, High Voltage Electrical burns in our country could and must be avoided.