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Article #6034Re: What happened? Could risk be higher?
From: Paul Dietz
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1989 19:12
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1989 19:12
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In article <1989Dec14.164235.22678@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: >Rapid decompression to low-grade vacuum has been tried (on animals). >Nobody's tried whole-body exposure to vacuum on humans, that I know of, There has been at least one industrial accident involving a worker trapped in a poorly designed vacuum chamber. He suffered severe embolism, but after emergency treatment in a hyperbaric chamber he eventually recovered, apparently with no major neurological damage. I read about this maybe five years ago; sorry, no reference. Maybe look in the space medicine literature. Paul F. Dietz dietz@cs.rochester.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!rutgers!rochester!dietz From: dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: What happened? Could risk be higher? Message-ID: <1989Dec14.191204.8528@cs.rochester.edu> Date: 14 Dec 89 19:12:04 GMT Reply-To: dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz) Organization: University of Rochester Computer Science Department Lines: 15