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Lightning strike assistance.
A lightning strike is an injury comparable to an electrical injury, but with the difference that a lightning discharge carries a greater electrical potential than household 220 volts. A lightning strike can be fatal in the worst case, or damage resulting in disability.
What damage can a lightning strike to a person:
- Burn at the entrance and exit of the discharge;
- Fire of clothing and objects in the hands or on the body of a person;
- Mechanical injury caused by the fall of the body;
- Stunning and blinding as a result of a powerful sound and light strike;
- Cardiac arrest;
- Stop breathing;
- Loss of consciousness.
First aid for a lightning strike:
- The victim needs resuscitation, so an ambulance must be called urgently.
- Since, after a lightning strike, the victim's body is not energized (unlike an electrical injury), he can be given a more comfortable and less traumatic position before the arrival of a team of paramedics.
- If the victim of a lightning strike does not show signs of life (does not breathe, no pulse), it is necessary to begin the procedure of heart massage and artificial respiration.
- If the victim is breathing and his pulse is felt, but he is unconscious, bring to consciousness using available methods (patting on the cheeks, braking, vapors of ammonia).
- Superficial burns are treated in the usual way.
- If bleeding is observed as a result of mechanical injury, then it requires stopping according to the rules for stopping arterial or venous bleeding.
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