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RE: Suspension trauma

Subject: RE: Suspension trauma
From: ben riches
Date: Feb 13 2007 17:01:57 
I'm a bit new to this forum stuff, so bare with me!
I may be corrected as I am a climbing arborist, not a paramedic, but I
believe the symptoms are more 'crush injury' than 'DVT'.
The heart is not strong enough to pump the blood from the large cavity
that is the legs, the normal workings of the muscles help it back up. If
stood motionless on the ground for a while (15 mins.?) you would pass-out,
collapse on the floor, the blood would start flowing and everthing would be
hunky-dory.
However, if you cannot collapse i.e. suspended in rope and harness, your
blood stops flowing as it should, you pass-out and stay there, all the while
the toxins are building up. Upon rescue and laying down, the blood and
toxins rush around the body and you die of toxic shock!
One way of preventing this happening is to move the leg muscles
regularly, probably before you start to get that hot, heavy feeling in the
legs. 

Ben



From: "Chatfield, Matthew" <Matthew.Chatfield@xxxx.gov.uk>
Reply-To: uktc@xxxxxx.tree-care.info
To: UK Tree Care <uktc@xxxxxx.tree-care.info>
Subject: RE: Suspension trauma
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:42:13 -0000

Come on, somebody tell us what this is about because (wait for it) the
suspense is killing me!

Arf arf

:)

-----Original Message-----
From: Andersonarb@xxxx.com [mailto:Andersonarb@xxxx.com]
Sent: 13 February 2007 16:37
To: UK Tree Care
Subject: Re: Suspension trauma



In a message dated 13/02/2007 16:24:31 GMT Standard Time,
Chris.Hastie@xxxxxxxxxx.gov.uk writes:

Something I've never heard of before, but there's an article on it  in
the latest edition of "Arb News" from the HSE. Quite scary, and  not
covered by a lot of First Aid courses I  suspect.



Seems it was lectured upon at the AA conference Chris, I missed it and
it
seems despite your being there you missed it too.

Seems to suggest that hanging around in trees, while waiting for someone
to
put a cable brace together is not a good idea.

Seems a bit like a long haul flight/DVT situation? Perhaps someone who
knows
will enlighten us as to how we're supposed to address the first aid
situation.

Bill.


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