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PARK RIDGE, ILLINOIS—

Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation dba Advocate Lutheran General Hospital

Exposure to change in air pressure · Caisson disease, bends, divers' palsy

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Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation dba Advocate Lutheran General Hospital , 1775 Dempster Street, PARK RIDGE, ILLINOIS 60068 on — Caisson disease, bends, divers' palsy, affecting the bODY SYSTEMS.

Final narrative

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.

Hospitalized BODY SYSTEMS Pressurized air-environmental

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