LOS ANGELES ELECTROCUTION LAWYER
Electric shock can occur upon contact of a human’s body with any source of voltage high enough to cause significant current. The minimum current a human being can feel is about 1 milliampere. If the current is extremely high then a current can cause serious tissue damage and bodily harm. The terms “electrocution” is commonly misused as a non-fatal electric shock, but fomally electrocution is a term used when a death or fatality is caused by an electric shock.
The voltage that is necessary for electrocution depends on various factors. Some of the factors include the strength of the current that runs through the body and the duration of that current. Also, a person’s skin might be a significant factor. Dry skin is a poor conductor that will have a resistance of around 100,000 ohms. However, broken or wet skin may have a resistance of only 1,000 ohms.
Males have typically a higher lethal current than females due to a larger amount of tissue in there bodies. Death can occur from currents as low as 0.1 amperes. If a person experiences an electric current of 0.001 amperes, the physiological effect would be a feeling of an electric shock and some pain. However, it would still be considered harmless. This is also true with a current of 0.005 amperes. Up to 0.005 amperes, the current will be considered harmless. If the current is between 0.01 to 0.05, a person will experience sustained muscular contraction and will have problems breathing. Also, there will be some ventricular interference but the current itself will not be fatal to a human being. However, once the current is above 0.1 amperes there will be ventricular fibrillation and the current can be fatal. The defibrillator which is commonly used to revive patients carries a current of about 6 amperes.
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