Author Topic: Pnuematic injuries (Read 5109 times)

Lardyc7 · « **on:** March 24, 2005, 10:42:58 AM »

Hello. Can someone enlighten me as to what the technical term for injuries caused from pnuematic hoses/couplings failing. Ive seen the pics of the guy up in scotland and am racking my brains as to what the specific title was.I'm a paramedic in london, and need the info for course work. Cheers.

Lardyc7 · « **Reply #1 on:** March 24, 2005, 10:44:46 AM »

ooppss pneumatic doh!

eddy orr · « **Reply #2 on:** March 24, 2005, 11:57:39 AM »

barotrauma, where a change in surrounding pressure causes direct damage to those air-containing cavities in the body which are directly connected with the surrounding atmosphere, principally the ears, sinuses and lungs.

more info at
http://www.hse.gov.uk/compressedair/index.htm

Lardyc7 · « **Reply #3 on:** March 24, 2005, 12:05:34 PM »

Cheers Eddy, im familiar with baro-trauma.It was more the type of injury that you can get from having a high pressure hose leak sending air/oil etc into tissues at high pressure. Thanks for the link.

burgermuncher999 · « **Reply #4 on:** March 24, 2005, 12:40:45 PM »

Epidermal injection of hydraulic fluid. Pneumatic relates to all things involving compressed air. The air eqpt in use in the fire service is of insufficient pressure to cause the types of injury you refer to.
Regards.

burgermuncher999 · « **Reply #5 on:** March 24, 2005, 12:44:29 PM »

Assuming that is that we are discussing the Grampian incident involving the failure of a hydraulic hose coupling on their Clan Lucas rescue eqpt..

Lardyc7 · « **Reply #6 on:** March 29, 2005, 08:14:45 AM »

Cheers burgermuncher, it was hydraulic hose incident not pnuematic, Doh! Due to being a paramedic i can cope with machines that go ping, but not technical descriptions.

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