Thermal and electrical injury rate kinetics in shock victims

Author

Lee, R.C. ; Gaylor, D.C. ; Tropea, B.I. ; Hannig, J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Surgery, Chicago Univ., IL, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

36434

Abstract

Tissue damage after electric shock is dependent on complex interactions of field strength, frequency and duration of exposure through thermal and electrical mechanisms. To understand these interactions, we combined previously developed computational models to predict the prevalence of either thermal or direct electrical tissue damage expected in human victims when contact duration and field strength are known

Keywords

bioelectric phenomena; biological effects of fields; biological tissues; biothermics; cellular effects of radiation; electric shocks; physiological models; AC field exposure; Joule heating; complex interactions; computational models; direct electrical tissue damage; electric shock victims; electrical injury rate kinetics; thermal injury rate kinetics; thermal tissue damage; tissue field strength; transmembrane potentials; Biomembranes; Contacts; Electric shock; Humans; Injuries; Kinetic theory; Lead; Muscles; Resistance heating; Temperature distribution;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

[Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 1999. 21st Annual Conference and the 1999 Annual Fall Meetring of the Biomedical Engineering Society] BMES/EMBS Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the First Joint

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5674-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1999.804449

Filename

804449