SOUTHAMPTON, PENNSYLVANIA—
Environmental Techonics Corporation
Exposure to change in air pressure · Pulmonary edema
Final narrative
An employee suffered pulmonary edema after participating in a high-altitude simulation.
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PARK RIDGE, ILLINOIS—
Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation dba Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
An employee was helping a patient in the hyperbaric chamber. The patient started seizing and the employee had to rapidly decompress the chamber, which resulted in the employee suffering an air embolism and decompression illness. The employee was hospitalized.