2025 Scholars' Research Symposium Abstract: Lightning Associated with More Visits to the Emergency Department for Chest Pain.

This study showed a significant increase in patients presenting to the emergency department with chest pain complaints 0.5 hours after lightning strike and between 2.5-5.5 hours after lightning strike. Limitations to this study include distance from lightning strike and intensity of lightning strike not being considered. Additionally, there was a small sample size for the group of patients diagnosed with an MI (n=5). These are areas that could be looked at further to better understand the relationship between a single loud event and chest pain. There was a trend toward significant association between lightning strikes and myocardial infarction, but due to the small sample size, no statistically significant correlation was found.