Very-Low Voltage Electrical Trauma Handbook: Understanding injuries resulting from contact exposure

While the immediate effects of high-voltage electrical accidents are often clear, much less obvious are long-term developments of symptoms and also the effects of low-voltage accidents. This book fills a significant gap in the electrical safety literature, especially in regard to extra low voltages. A unique guide for non-engineers looking for a broad introduction to electrical injury, a starting point for victims of electrical accidents frustrated by a lack of consistent information, and a standard reference for biomedical engineers and forensic scientists. Electrical injury, hazards, and electrocution are explained in a direct and complete style. Case reports of electrical accidents are reviewed and regulatory standards (IEEE, IEC) analyzed. Previously ambiguous concepts are carefully defined and explained, such as stray current , no-let-go , startle reaction , electrical stress reaction , delayed death/arrhythmia , and the relationship between contact voltage and body current. .. This is the first comprehensive volume published in two decades focused on the subject of very low voltage lectrical trauma and the first to comprehensively consider extra low voltages