Table 2.

Lightning strike victims presenting between 2000 and 2010 to our emergency department.

N	Year	Age	Gender	Description of event	Cardiovascular	Neurological	Skin	ENT	Other
1	03	30	Female	Patient with arrhythmias after lightning strike	Arrhythmia	/	/	/	/
2	03	45	Male	Patient was driving a car when hit by lightning, strong contraction of the pectoral muscles	Thoracic pain	/	/	/	Muscular pain
3	05	24	Female	Patient was in contact with a car when hit by lightning; short episode of paralysis and paresthesia in the right leg, first degree burns of the right hemithorax, strong pain in gluteal muscle, rhabdomyolysis, hospitalized	/	Paresthesia, paralysis	First-degree burns	/	Myoglobinuria, muscular pain
4	06	41	Male	Patient standing on the roof of a building when hit by lightning, arrhythmia, excoriation of hands, hospitalized	Arrhythmia	Vertigo	Excoriation	/	/
5	07	58	Male	Patient hiking when hit by lightning, paresthesia, first-degree burns on right-lower extremity, second- to third-degree burns on entrance point and exit point on right-lower leg and left chest, admission to ICU	/	Paresthesia	Second- to third-degree burns (9% of body surface)	/	Myoglobinuria
6	09	49	Male	Patient with arrhythmias after lightning strike	Arrhythmia	/	/	/	/
7	09	32	Female	Patient standing at a window when hit by lightning; paralysis and paresthesia of the left upper extremity for two hours	/	Paresthesia, paralysis	/	/	/
8	10	33	Female	Patient driving a car when hit by lightning; deafness of the right ear, paresthesia of the right ear, headache	/	Paresthesia, headache	/	deafness	/
9	10	52	Male	Patient working in the forest when lightning hit a tree 0.50 m away, cardiopulmonary arrest, wide nonreactive pupils, resuscitation, followed by intermittent bradyarrhythmia, admission to ICU	Asystole, arrhythmia	Unreactive pupils	/	/	/