IMPROVING TREATMENT OF ELECTRICAL INJURY THROUGH MULTIDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATIONThank you for your interest in the Chicago Electrical Trauma Research Institute. CETRI was founded to facilitate multidisciplinary clinical research, and is dedicated to improving the treatment of electrical injury survivors. Our multi-institutional team of clinicians, epidemiologists, biologists, and engineers, all appointed at leading universities in Chicago, are working towards furthering the medical community's understanding of electrical injury. They have been caring for electrical injury survivors for over 20 years, and have reported much of the new advances in the diagnosis and treatment of electrical injury. Fundamentally, CETRI strives to help each electrical injury survivor along the road to recovery.

ELECTRICAL INJURY REEXAMINEDSince normal physiology involves so many applications of electrical forces, ranging from neuromuscular signaling to coordination of wound healing, biological systems are very vulnerable to applications of supraphysiologic electric fields. Therefore, even when the electrical injury does not involve any visible tissue damage, electrical shock survivors may experience significant consequences. The driving force behind our clinical research efforts is the advancement of clinical diagnosis of electrical injury complications and to bring innovative therapies to each of our patients. The spectrum of our investigation includes anything from exogenous shock to lightening strike.