The 2016 film Deepwater Horizon offers a rare portrayal of industrial disaster. It is novel as there are few film-based treatments of this issue. The film enables the public to learn about the disaster, the lives lost, and the stories of survival, but it also provides the opportunity to examine how industrial disaster and, by extension, occupational health and safety may be publicly framed and understood.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: News coverage in popular media can shape public perspectives on occupational issues. Few studies exist concerning how occupational injury and fatality are represented in the news.
Objectives: This study examined how injuries, fatalities and worker characteristics were represented in newspapers compared with official government statistics.
It has been postulated that lower extremity fasciotomy may disrupt the calf musculovenous pump and predisposes to development of chronic venous insufficiency (CVI). However, studies based on trauma patients who undergo emergent fasciotomy are confounded by the possibility of concomitant vascular and soft tissue injury and use historical controls. This is a prospective study that evaluates venous hemodynamics in young patients undergoing elective fasciotomy for chronic exertional compartment syndrome (CECS), eliminating the problems associated with retrospective study of trauma patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: The purpose of this study was to describe the physiologic effects of pregnancy on lower extremity venous hemodynamics.
Methods: Eight pregnant women, six with no known venous disease (NVD) and two with documented deep venous obstruction (DVO), were identified in the first trimester (TM) and studied monthly until delivery and once postpartum (pp) by air plethysmography and duplex scan.
Results: None of six women in the NVD group (12 extremities) had obstruction or elevated ambulatory venous pressures as estimated by air plethysmography.
Br J Anaesth
October 1981
Respiratory complications were assessed in 85 patients following upper abdominal surgery and attempts made to decrease their frequency. There was a significant decrease in the frequency of cough, sputum and abnormal physical signs in the chest in those patients receiving warm, humidified air. On the first and third days after surgery the arterial oxygen tension of this group was greater than that of the control group while from days 1 to 5 PaO2 never decreased below 95% of its value before operation.
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