Typical Injuries Sustained in Barotrauma
Typical injuries sustained in barotrauma are illustrated in the body map.
1
- Temporary deafness and tinnitus
- Rupture of tympanic membrane
- Ossicular chain disruption
- Distortion of round and oval windows
- Perilymph fistula
2
- Blast lung
- Haemopneumothorax
- Pulmonary oedema
- Pulmonary haemorrhage
- Pulmonary contusion
- Pulmonary laceration
- Systemic air embolism
3
- Perforation
- Mural haemorrhage
- Mesenteric shearing
4
- Traumatic amputation
5
- Cardiac contusion
- Myocardial ischaemia and infarction (systemic air embolism)
- Arrhythmias
- Bradycardia and hypotension without haemorrhage
6
- Traumatic brain injury
- Skull fractures
- Focal neurological deficit (systematic air embolism)
7
- Blurred vision
- Visual field defects (systemic air embolism)
- Globe injuries (secondary to facial injury)
8
- 'Crushed egg shell' fractures of the middle third of the face
- Mandibular fracture
- Teeth fractures