Question

A client is admitted after incurring electrical burns to both hands while playing golf during a lightning storm. the nurse is assessing the entrance and exit wounds. which information should the nurse consider about electrical burns

Answer 1

Like all electrical current, lightning will flow through the path of least resistance. In this case, the burns will travel along the nerve endings that offer this path. When the nurse looks for the burns, she should look at those nerves that offer less resistance to the lightning's path.