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- From: wb8foz@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (David Lesher)
- Subject: Re: SHOCKING STORIES
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.034040.9897@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 03:40:40 GMT
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- Others said
- # Um, what's the medical procedure for a very bad shock? I didn't
- # think there was any, besides grounding the body. Is it related to
- # fire exposure, as voltage can often cook parts?
-
- #1 is cardiac, I suspect. If you go into defib, you'd better get
- shocked again, and soon.
-
- #2 is fluids. It seems that one of the effects of INTERNAL burns is to
- overload the kidneys with toxins. So they dump large quantities of
- saline solution into you to help flush it out.
-
- #3 is external burns from the shock.
-
- {I'm no MD, and I don't play one on the Net. But a few years back a
- friend created a nasty arc in a cabinet full of coal dust and set
- himself on fire in places. They THOUGHT he'd zapped himself, too, so he
- got the full court press.}
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