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Worker hanging strapped into a safety harness during a fall rescue drill. Suspension trauma, also known as orthostatic shock while suspended, harness hang syndrome (HHS), suspension syndrome, or orthostatic intolerance, is an effect which occurs when the human body is held upright without any movement for a period of time.
Rescue death (or reflow syndrome) is a hypothesized fatal condition that can occur after blood pools in a part of the body for a prolonged period such as during suspension trauma. There are several proposed mechanisms for this phenomenon.
a clear and simple approach to rescue of a suspended worker following a fall arrest event. All workers should be familiar with the site-specific plan and able to both comply with and implement it. This includes aiding others, as in recovery of a suspended co-worker before "suspension trauma" sets in.
Suspension trauma. Main article: Suspension trauma. Also known as harness hang syndrome (HHS), or orthostatic intolerance, is an effect which occurs when the human body is held upright without any movement for a period of time. Swallow-hole. Main article: Swallow-hole. The point where water drains from the surface into a cave system.
The WSW, as the suspension railway's operator, paid some DM 1.3 million in damages, for pain and suffering, for medical treatment and for burial costs, as well as for specialists to help the bereaved and others affected by the accident overcome their psychological trauma.
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