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You went to the emergency room? I think you are a little paranoid. Ive been knocked out from electric shocks and have never gone to the hospital. If you can get up and walk your fine.
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That statement is just plain wrong; specifically the last sentence. Despite not having any noticable symptoms you can die hours later from heart trouble caused by the current disrupting the electric impulses in your heart. Apparently it can be a fairly minor shock too.
I once cut through 640v line that fed a gas station in Surrey. It blew the trasformer out on the street, traffic lights were down and the force of it threw me back about six feet into a wall. I was really lucky the way the stars were aligned and only had flash burns (fairly bad ones) so the ambulance came, took me to emergency and to make a long story short: I had to argue with the Doctor to let me go. They had me hooked up to heart monitoring devices and explained that it's important to be very careful for the first 24hrs when hit with electrical current. The plastic surgeon came in and confirmed what I'd been trying to say about the burns (flash not exit) and I finally got out.
Having said that most electricians get shocked fairly frequently and probably don't go to the hospital and are no worse for wear but there's no harm in being safe.