Contributors Preface Acknowledgements Part I. Introduction: 1. Electrical burns: a historical review T. Bernstein 2. Industrial electrical accidents and their complications observed by Electricite de France J. Cabanes 3. The pathophysiology and clinical management of electrical injury R. C. Lee Part II. Clinical Manifestations and Management: 4. Soft tissue patterns in acute electric burns J. L. Hunt 5. The spectrum of electrical injuries E. A. Luce 6. Electrical trauma: pathophysiology and clinical management R. H. Demling 7. Acute and delayed neurological sequelae of electrical injury B. J. Grube and D. M. Heimbach 8. Paediatric electrical burns C. F. Keusch, G. H. Gifford and E. Eriksson 9. Surgical technique for salvage of electrically damaged tissue L. J. Gottlieb, J. Saunders and T. J. Krizek Part III. Tissue Responses: 10. The role of arachidonic acid metabolism in the pathogenesis of electrical trauma M. C. Robson P. G. Hayward and J. P. Heggers 11. Thermal damage: mechanisms, patterns and detection in electrical burns P. Heroux 12. Evaluation of electrical burn injury using an electrical impedance technique M. Chilbert 13. Impedance spectroscopy: the measurement of electrical impedance of biological materials R. Schmukler 14. Analysis of heat injury to the upper extremity of electric shock victims: a theoretical model B. I. Tropea and R. C. Lee Part IV: Biophysical Mechanisms of Cellular Injury: 15. Response of cells to supra-physiological temperatures: experimental measurements and kinetic models E. G. Cravalho, M. Toner, D. C. Gaylor and R. C. Lee 16. Cell membrane rupture by strong electric fields: prompt and delayed processes J. C. Weaver 17. An anisotropic, elastomechanical instability theory for electropermeabilisation of bilayer-lipid membranes C. Maldarelli and K. Stebe 18. Electrical injury to heart muscle cells L. Tung 19. Skeletal muscle cell membrane electrical breakdown in electrical trauma D. C. Gaylor, D. L. Bhatt and R. C. Lee 20. Theory of non-linear conduction in cell membranes under strong electric fields R. C. Lee and K. Prakah-Asante Index.
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