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From: "Ross Boardman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 12:08 AM
Subject: Re: Charlie and the Bottle
> Danny,
>
> I think most of it is physics. The finger creates a partial vacuum and
helps
> to further remove air each time there is a an attempt to yank the finger
> out. Put the bottle in water and this dampens the shockwave when it gets
> hit. The hammer merely breaks the bottle and doesn't shatter it, so no
> spall, cuts or jagged bits on the floor either.
>
> The hole made by the hammer, if it doesn't break the bottle, removes the
> vacuum and the finger is free.
i think that sounds like a reasonable suggestion as to the mechanism
employed
>
> As for consent? Not sure, does a fireman need consent to cut the railings
> round a kids trapped head?
do it on verbal consent? , those working in emergency care do far more
invasive things on the basis of verbal or assumed consent every day, the
'invasiveness police' wuld tell you it's not an invasive procedure where
injections/infiltrations / aspirations, cannualtion, inbuation and suturing
are
Martyn Hodson
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Registered Nurse
SJA Ambulance Attendant
writing for myself, views expressed are entirely my own,
and may not reflect those of my employer or St. John Ambulance , Nationally
or locally
-Duct tape is like the force, it has a light side and a dark side,
and it holds the universe together.
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