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PubMed1993

Unilateral perihilar opacification caused by lightning.

The chest radiographs of two children struck by lightning showed right perihilar opacification. The radiographs were taken 2 h and 5 h after the event respectively. To our knowledge no similar cases have been reported.

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PubMed1996

Adolescents' perceived risk and personal experience with natural disasters: an evaluation of cognitive heuristics.

Elevated risk judgments for negative life events have been linked to personal experience with events. We tested the hypothesis that cognitive heuristics are the underlying cognitive mechanism for this relation. The availability (i.e., memory for incidents) and simulation (i.e., imagery) heuristics were evaluated as possible mediators for the relation between personal experience and risk estimates for fatal weather events. Adolescents who had experienced weather disasters estimated their personal risk for weather events. Support was obtained for the simulation heuristic (imagery) as a mediator for the relation. Availability for lightning disaster experience was also found to be a mediator for the relation between personal lightning disaster experience and risk estimate for future events. The implications for risk perception research are discussed.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1999

Association of high-dose intravenous methylprednisolone with reversal of blindness from lightning in two patients.

OBJECTIVE: To report possibly beneficial effects of treatment with high-dose corticosteroids given intravenously to two patients with loss of vision after lightning strikes. DESIGN: Case reports. PARTICIPANTS: Two patients who suffered the effects of a lightning strike. INTERVENTION: High-dose intravenous methylprednisolone (NASCIS-2 Protocol). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Vision recovery, pupil responses, and optic nerve appearance. RESULTS: One patient had unilateral ophthalmoscopically visible abnormality with light perception vision and a relative afferent defect in that eye; vision recovered to 20/25. The other patient had no light perception, nonreactive pupils, and normal fundus examinations in both eyes; vision recovered bilaterally to normal (20/20). CONCLUSIONS: High-dose intravenous corticosteroid treatment in these patients may have had a role in their visual recovery.

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PubMed1992

Lightning strikes: nature of neurological damage in patients evaluated in hospital emergency departments.

Emergency physicians and staff are usually the first to evaluate and manage victims of lightning strikes. Damage to the nervous system is often the most devastating consequence of lightning strikes. Contrary to most articles in the literature in which neurological disorders are said to be either transient or delayed, we report the cases of six patients with severe, immediate, and in at least three, permanent clinical problems. Patients with signs of spinal cord lesions are most likely to have permanent disabilities.

Adolescent↗