Other than in third world countries where the electricity is readily available, and they have epidemics of high voltage electrical wind.

But in North America and most parts of Europe, electrical burns represent way less than

1% of all admissions that get the burn units and an even smaller component that get into

the emergency room.

So it's like a rare topic.

And the result of that is the fact that you aren't going to see randomized control trials.

You're not even going to see good prospective trials on a lot of the things we're going to

talk about.

So a lot of it is just based on simple approach, common sense, and things that are related

to other forms of traumas like people still alkalinize the urine.

People give more fluid.

We could argue till tomorrow how much fluid.

But the principles are there, but they're not established in like exact algorithms because

these cases are so rare. That's just the way it is.

Welcome to the Emergency Medicine Cases podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Anton Hellman, bringing you Canada's

brightest minds in emergency

medicine from EMC Studios in Toronto.

This is part two of our main episode podcast on burn, inhalational, and electrical injuries.

In part one, Dr. Joel Fish and Dr. Marira Vankevc and I discussed wound care, resuscitation, and airway

management of the burn patient and the inhalational injury patient with a segment on awake

intubation by George Kovac. If you haven't already, please go and listen to Part 1 first,

because we'll be referring back to part one in this podcast probably

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