I want a scientific paper, and I can't find it......

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This is kind of a last resort here, as I have looked high and low for this particular paper. It is on a case of explosive decompression that occurred in an oil rig's decompression chamber.

Now I have tried through my means as a uni student to find it. However, the website for the journal only has the papers in electronic format from 1996 onwards (the paper was published in 1988), and my university only has sporadic hard copy issues, and not the one I want.

I have tried ScienceDirect, Ovid, and PubMed (which only had a citation, not even a f***ing abstract), so I'm going out on a limb here. Anyone have a copy, preferably electronic, of this paper:

Giertsen, J.C. et al., "An Explosive Decompression Accident", The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology, 9(2):91-101, 1988.

Please reply and we can contact each other on a means of my obtaining a copy of this paper...

If you would have asked me about 1991 I was living in a town with a large university
library TAMU in College Station, TX.

I do not remeber the the link it was carl something I thought but you can order a copy
of any paper you want it might cost $20 or so.

Only a large 50,000 student college will have that periodical on the shelf.
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It use to be:
TELNET database.carl.org
Looking for a weblink

seems these people are carl now:
http://www.tlcdelivers.com/tlc/default.asp
I do not see how to search though.

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its called http://www.ingentaconnect.com/ now but I could not find the artical

Sorry they don't have the printed edition of that journal here at Yale. Just electronic version from 1996 onwards.

Reading the abstract given in PubMed... omg what a horrible way to die.

Very. I said in a much earlier post on WrongPlanet talking about explosive decompression in space. At most, in space (pressure difference of only 1 atm), you bleed from some orifices.

From a pressure differential of 8 atms, though...

I personally feel this should be a form of capital punishment for pedophiles and multiple murderers, though....

i just checked our university's journals and we don't even have it....

but i put in a request for an interlibrary loan... so if they can find it, they will send me an electronic copy of if.

they usually get to it within a week, but sometimes it takes longer...

so hopefully, ill be able to get back to you soon

Hi - did you ever get hold of a copy?