Mobile phone-triggered thermal burns in the presence of supplemental oxygen.
In this case report, we present a patient who used a nasal cannula for oxygen supplementation and suffered deep, second-degree burns to his nose and left leg when an electrical spark shot out of the cable's connection socket while the cellular phone was ringing and the cable was, simultaneously, being disconnected from the socket. The cellular phone, a device commonly thought by many people to be both useful and safe, thus has the potential to serve as a heat source that might ignite and cause burns.
Gil
Tamir
T
Unit of Plastic Surgery, Carmel Medical Center, and the Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
Tamir
Gil
G
Metanes
Issa
I
Issa
Metanes
M
Har-Shai
Yaron
Y
Yaron
Har-Shai
HS
D002058:Burns, Electric / Q000209:etiology*; D040421:Cell Phone; D006801:Humans; D007869:Leg Injuries / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009666:Nose / Q000293:injuries; D010102:Oxygen Inhalation Therapy; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Q000628:therapy