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Case Report

‘Thunder bolts and lightning’: survival and neurorehabilitation following out of hospital cardiac arrest secondary to lightning strike

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Pages 1585-1587 | Received 13 Nov 2017, Accepted 01 Jul 2018, Published online: 05 Sep 2018

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