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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
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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