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Journal of The Korean Society of Emergency Medicine 2003;14(5): 670-672. |
| Transient Quadriplegia after Low-Voltage Electric Shock |
| Sung Jin Kim, Dong Pill Lee |
| Department of Emergency Medicine, Keimyung University, School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea. drcradle@hanmail.net |
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| ABSTRACT |
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Neurologic disorders from electrical injury may be classified as cerebral syndroms, spinal syndroms, peripheral nerve syndromes. Neurological complication involving either cerebral complication (loss of consciousness, seizures, decreased memory, headache) or peripheral complaints (sensorimotor loss, paraesthesias, paralysis, paresis, dysthesias) are described in the current literatures.
However, the exact site of neurological damage causing paralysis after electrical trauma ramains to be clarified.
Although transient tetraplegia has been previously reported following high-voltage electrical injury, the following case report describes an unusual presentation of transient acute tetraplegia following a low-voltage electrical injury. |
| Key words:
Quadriplegia, Electrical shock, Spinal cord injury |
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