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From: iayork@panix.com (Ian A. York)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Airhose Up the Butt Story?
Date: 14 Mar 1996 12:30:09 -0500

In article <31486565.AFD@star.argus.co.za>,
Megan Knight <mkn@star.argus.co.za> wrote:
>archive has. Just don't ask me to ask the librarian to do a search for
>"airhose up the butt"

As I've said, I already posted a bunch of references on this. Here's some of them again. These include reports from Nigeria, Australia, Spain, Germany (two) and Russia (two). There are probably more, but I didn't bother with a really detailed search this time.

Bottom line: It happens, and it's being going on for close to 30 years, or more (the earliest reference I have here is 1968; my Medline only goes back to 1966, though).

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AU  - Kinjyo T
AU  - Ohno T
AU  - Tanaka K
AU  - Nishimura A
AU  - Taira A
TI  - Compressed air injury of the colon complicated by rhabdomyolysis:
      case report.
SO  - Journal of Trauma 1994 Apr;36(4):592-3
AB  - We present a case of traumatic injury of the colon by compressed
      air. Elevated levels of urinary myoglobin, creatinine phosphokinase,
      lactate dehydrogenase, and glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase
      indicating rhabdomyolysis were noted. In this type of injury,
      rhabdomyolysis related to acute peripheral circulatory failure may
      occur because of obstruction of venous return to the heart following
      a great increase in intraperitoneal pressure.
AU  - Onyedunma EC
AU  - Akande B
AU  - Adedeji SA
TI  - Compressed air injury of the colon, a case report.
SO  - Tropical & Geographical Medicine 1987 Jul;39(3):303-5
AB  - A case of compressed air injury to the bowel resulting in large
      bowel perforation necessitating resection is presented. The
      mechanism of injury is discussed and the attention of health care
      delivery personnel is drawn to this new type of industrial accident
      in Nigeria. The need for education of the workers handling
      compressed air appliances in a developing country like Nigeria is
      emphasized.
AU  - Kampmann H
AU  - Kijewski H
TI  - [Perforation of the large intestine caused by compressed air.
      Experimental studies reconstructing compressed air insufflation].
      [German]
SO  - Archiv fur Kriminologie 1983 May-Jun;171(5-6):173-81
AB  - A foreign worker died after a compressed air injury. The
      insufflation of high pressure air into the anus caused multiple
      ruptures in the part anterior of the dilated sigmoid and colon
      descending. For the reconstruction of the case it was necessary to
      know the minimum distance between the nozzle and the gluteal region.
      Experimental work has shown that clothing does offer protection
      against the high pressure air and colon perforations can only be
      expected if there is a small distance between the jet of the
      compressed air and the anal region.
AU  - Otero Ramirez A
AU  - Ortega Arruti JA
AU  - Rodrigo Sasal R
TI  - [Perforation of the colon by compressed air]. [Spanish]
SO  - Revista Espanola de Las Enfermedades del Aparato Digestivo 1981
      Aug;60(2):181-8
AU  - Raina S
AU  - Machiedo GW
TI  - Multiple perforations of colon after compressed air injury.
SO  - Archives of Surgery 1980 May;115(5):660-1
AB  - Multiple perforations of the colon after compressed air injury
      occurred. The initial perforation did not become manifest until five
      days after the injury. This was repaired at laparotomy and a
      proximal colostomy was performed. Ten days after the first
      operation, a second laparotomy showed a second larger tear at the
      level of the peritoneal reflection. After a Hartmann procedure, the
      patient did well and was discharged from the hospital. This case
      emphasizes the need for repeated exploratory surgery of the abdomen
      if the initial postoperative course is not uneventful since
      full-thickness perforation of the colon may be delayed in its
      presentation.
AU  - Kliuev II
AU  - Saushev VN
AU  - Bobkov VF
TI  - [Ruptures of the sigmoid colon from compressed air]. [RUSSIAN]
SO  - Klinicheskaia Khirurgiia 1976 Aug;(8):57
AU  - Thiele RL
TI  - Compressed air injury of the colon: a report of two cases.
SO  - Australian & New Zealand Journal of Surgery 1973 Jul;43(1):49-51
AU  - Spangler H
TI  - [Compressed air injury of the colon]. [German]
SO  - Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie 1969 Apr 12;94(15):515-8
AU  - Uskova TF
TI  - [A case of rupture of a sigmoid colon with polyposis by compressed
      air]. [RUSSIAN]
SO  - Vestnik Khirurgii Imeni i - i - Grekova 1968 Aug;101(8):119-20

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