Sentence examples for lightning injury from inspiring English sources

Small buildings such as bus shelters or huts on golf courses may actually increase the risk of lightning injury if they are the tallest objects in an area.

The causes include infectious root and crown rot; nematode, insect, or rodent feeding; low temperature or lightning injury; household gas injury; poor soil type or drainage; change in soil grade; or massive removal of roots in digging utility trenches and construction.

Here are five suggestions from a review article on lightning injuries written by Drs. Medley O'Keefe Gatewood and Richard Zane at Harvard and published in 2004 in Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America.

Lightning injuries can be classified as mild, moderate or severe.

Lightning injuries are responsible for an average of 300 injuries and 100 deaths per year [1].

The clinical manifestations of lightning injuries range from mild burns to severe multiorgan dysfunction and death.

Lightning injuries are a small subset of electrical injuries and are responsible for an average of 300 injuries and 100 deaths per year in the US.

The results of this study add to the small but increasing literature on lightning injuries and may serve to increase physician awareness in this medical niche.

Although there were reportedly six mechanisms of lightning injuries (direct strike, contact injury, side flash, ground current, upward streamer and blast injury) this study only established two types of mechanisms - direct strike and contact injury - amongst our patients.

This study aims to assess the profile of the at-risk patient, and possibly identify factors predicting the length of hospital stay in patients with lightning injuries over a period of 11 years.

This is an 11-year retrospective study of patients who were admitted to Changi General Hospital, the only hospital located in eastern Singapore, from 2000 to 2011 with the diagnosis of lightning injuries.