Handbook of Electrical Hazards and Accidents, Second Edition

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If you need to understand electrical injuries and their causes and implications, this book is for you. It uses non-technical language to explain the nature of the various kinds of electricity, and is invaluable to attorneys, physicians, nurses, engineers, and expert witnesses who deal with electrical accidents that result in injury or death. This book is designed to give you a solid background in the terminology and principles of electricity and how they relate to electrical injuries. It also enables you to understand the impact of electricity flowing through the body. You will read about fatal and non-fatal accidents that occur in the home, in industry, in medicine, and in the outdoors. Detailed, accessible information explains electrical patterns in nature and the implications of different levels of voltage. This comprehensive book even informs you of the legal, as well as technical, aspects of the electrical field, preparing you to create successful electrical injury cases. Topics Include: Voltages, Power-line accidents, microshock, macroshock, and electrocution, Low-voltage accidents and injuries, High-voltage accidents and injuries, Thermal injury

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Electrical shocks of many types come into play in the practice of physicians, nurses, engineers, attorneys, and expert witnesses, and this will give them all core information on power-line electric currents and accidents, lightning, thermal injury, electrical shocking devices, high-frequency current, direct current, and electric-arc and electron-beam welding, along with material on the conducting properties of cells, organs fluids and body segments and the role and expectations of technical experts. For the benefit of non-experts the authors include engineering, medical and legal language, terms and abbreviations and for the benefit of all they include basic information on electricity and its behavior whether or not it is in contact with the human body.