The Incidence and Treatment of Electrical Injuries during 20 Years in the Clinic of Burns and Reconstructive Surgery of Kosice-Saca Hospital, Slovakia

Retrospective analysis of patients with electrical injuries hospitalized during 20 years in the Clinic of Burns and Reconstructive Surgery of Kosice-Saca Hospital, Slovakia. From 4674 patients 147 were admitted with elecrical injury (3,14%). Most of them were men (103/70.1%) followed by children (38/25,85%) and 4 women (6/4,05%). The distribution of low/high tension injury was 98/49. Children younger than 6 years suffered mostly from low, older from high tension injury. The average TBSA was the highest in men (9,15%), followed by women (6,66%) and children (1,06%). Surgical treatment (necrectomy, skin grafting, flap plasty, amputation) was necessary in 66 men (64%), 32 children (84,2%) and in all 6 women. The need of hospital stay the longest in men as compare with children and women 26,04; 19,3 and 11,66 days respectively. During this period only 3 fatal outcomes occured, all in men as results of high voltage injury combined with polytrauma. In two cases cardiac arrest was the immediate cause of death. The results of this study according to causes, complications and treatment modalities are in accordance with most of similar studies carried out in several regions of the world.