SAQ 1225 – Lightning strike cardiac arrest in a rural ED

A 67-year-old male farmer is brought to your rural ED by ambulance with CPR in progress after a lightning strike.

What are your immediate management priorities?

(Marked out of 5.0)

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He is successfully resuscitated. List one short- and one long-term complication for each system in the table.

(Marked out of 3.0)
System | Short term | Long term<br /> Neurological | |<br /> Ophthalmological | |<br /> Otological | |

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Give one example of a skin effect and one example of a deep-tissue effect for high-voltage and lightning electrical injuries.

(Marked out of 2.0)
Injury type | Skin effect | Deep tissue effect<br /> High voltage | |<br /> Lightning | |

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