Journal of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

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Electrical Trauma and the Pulmonary Vascular Phenotype of Acute Lung Injury

Santiago Rivera Castrillón

Pulmonary complications after electrical injury are uncommon and are most often interpreted as parenchymal forms of lung damage, including non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema, diffuse alveolar hemorrhage, or focal thermal injury. However, recent case-based observations suggest that this may not be the only pattern. In some patients, severe hypoxemia and pulmonary hypertension appear to be greater than expected from the extent of radiographic abnormalities. 

J Pulm Crit Care Med, Volume 1, Issue 1, p1-7