Electrical injuries: Pathophysiology and emergency management
β Scribed by Marc Kobernick
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1982
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 688 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1097-6760
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## Abstract ## Background Emergency responders frequently incur injuries while providing medical, fire, and law enforcement services. National surveillance systems provide fragmented perspectives on responder injuries because they omit specific classes of workers (e.g., government or volunteers);
**Background**: Various agents have been implicated in causing tissue necrosis after intravenous infusions have extravasated. These include solutions of calcium, potassium, bicarbonate, hypertonic dextrose, cytotoxic drugs and antibiotics. Views on management of these injuries differ, and range from