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A review of low-voltage shock hazards highlights significant uncertainties regarding human body impedance under low-voltage conditions and the scaling of lethal fibrillation thresholds from animals to humans.
This review highlights the need for better data on human body impedance and the scaling of animal fibrillation thresholds to humans for low-voltage shock hazards.
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Uncertainties in low-voltage parameters warrant caution in electrical safety standards; leaves open the need for human impedance and fibrillation scaling data.
Low voltages (0 to 240 volts) shock hazards and biological fibrillation thresholds are reviewed from the standpoint of improving the existing data base. The principal uncertainties with existing data are the impedances of the human body under low-voltage low-impedance source shock conditions, and the relationships between lethal thresholds observed in animal tests and the scaling of this observed data to humans.
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J. E. Bridges (1981) conducted a review in Low-voltage shock hazards and biological fibrillation. Low-voltage (0 to 240 volts) shocks was evaluated on Biological fibrillation thresholds and human body impedance. A review of low-voltage shock hazards highlights significant uncertainties regarding human body impedance under low-voltage conditions and the scaling of lethal fibrillation thresholds from animals to humans.
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