Abstract

VINAS DIAZ, José Antonio; RODRIGUEZ, Jesús Juan  and  ALVAREZ REYNOSO, Sara. A methodological proposal for preventing and treating those lesions caused by lightning. Rev Ciencias Médicas [online]. 2009, vol.13, n.3, pp.52-64. ISSN 1561-3194.

ABSTRACT Lesions caused by lightning are the main cause of death in Cuba produced by the so-called meteorological phenomena estimating 65 victims yearly. In Pinar del Rio province (year 2008), this kind of lesion represented the second cause of death by accidents in the 0-18 year old group and the first cause in the 5-14 year old group. In the economy the damages are serious (damages in the infrastructure of communications and electricity plants, informatic systems and electrodomestic equipments and so on). They are also involved in the forest fires. The higher number of human deaths is observed in the 16-30 year old group in the rural areas mainly. A third of the cases is fatal and among those survivors 70% develop frequent sequela. In this province there is not a design of methodology for preventing and treating this kind of accident at primary and secundary health care and it is intended to teach this subject in the pregraduate and postgraduate medical teaching

Keywords : lightning injuries/prevention; methodology.

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