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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>1409-0015</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Medicina Legal de Costa Rica]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Med. leg. Costa Rica]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1409-0015</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Asociación Costarricense de Medicina Forense]]></publisher-name>
</publisher>
</journal-meta>
<article-meta>
<article-id>S1409-00152016000100309</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Elevación transitoria del segmento st en paciente victima de trauma eléctrico en el Hospital San Rafael de Alajuela]]></article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Porras M]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Guillermo]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Quesada G]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Jose Alexis]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,aff1  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,Hospital Liberia  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>03</month>
<year>2016</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>03</month>
<year>2016</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>33</volume>
<numero>1</numero>
<fpage>309</fpage>
<lpage>313</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1409-00152016000100309&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1409-00152016000100309&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1409-00152016000100309&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen: El trauma eléctrico ocurre cuando un organismo vivo participa de un circuito eléctrico. Esto produce un síndrome traumático que involucra daño térmico y alteraciones eléctricas en el cuerpo. Para entenderlo mejor es necesario conocer la física de la electricidad. En este articulo se revisara un caso que se presento en el hospital San Rafael en el cual fue posible observar anormalidades electrocardiografícas en un paciente expuesto a traumas eléctrico leve.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract: Electrical injuries happen when a living organism takes part in an electrical circuit through the tissues of that organism. Because of this, the result is trauma syndrome that involves termal damage an electrical disturbances into the body. For a better understanding, is necessary to know about the physics of electricity. We`ll rewiew a clinical case happened in Hospital San Rafael, in which was possible to see electrocardiograma anormalities in pacient exposed to low electrical trauma.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Trauma eléctrico]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[electrocardiograma]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[anamalias eléctricas post traumaticas.]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Electric trauma]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[electrocardiogram]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[post traumatic electrical disturbances.]]></kwd>
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