A reconstructed computer tomography image of the e-cig injuries
Primary Children's Hospital/The New England Journal of Medicine
Posted on 06/20/2019 4:36:15 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Katie W. Russell, the pediatric surgeon who treated 17-year-old Austin, compared his injuries to those seen in “high-speed motor vehicle crashes.” Her colleague, pediatric ear, nose and throat surgeon Jonathan Skirko, says it looked “kind of like a close-range gunshot wound.”
Burton and her maimed son first headed to the local hospital in their hometown of Ely, Nevada, but were turned away for lack of resources. Doctors said they’d have to drive 200 miles to Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City.
They filled the teen’s mouth with gauze and gave him a “vomit bag,” says Burton, noting he didn’t receive any pain medication, then set off on a five-hour journey — almost hitting a wild horse in the process — and finally arrived around 1 a.m.
“He had a very swollen lower jaw and lip, a small burn on his lip and a huge cut in his mouth,” says Russell. “A 2-centimeter [¾-inch] piece of his jaw was just blown to pieces.”
Austin’s injuries required two surgeries to repair, the doctors say, which included adding a titanium plate to stabilize his jawbone and stitching the flesh wounds. The hole in the young man’s chin could have been caused by e-cig shrapnel or a wayward tooth.
E-cigarettes contain lithium-ion batteries — the likely culprit in some 2,035 vaporizer explosions occurring between 2015 and 2017, according to a British Medical Journal report. The U.S. Fire Administration says these batteries are “not a safe source of energy for these devices.”
A reconstructed computer tomography image of the e-cig injuries
Primary Children's Hospital/The New England Journal of Medicine
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Possible, but still not going to cause an explosion with enough force to break the mandible AND they are still a couple of inches away from the lips in most e-cigs and usually enclosed in a brass tube.
I get mine from elementvape.
Currently using the Mag (Pictured above) with the Hellvape/MikeVape Rebirth RTA with dual 24 gauge Kanthal running .28 ohm at 30 watts.
Smoooooooth!
Thank you for that explanation. Makes sense.
If he was dry-hitting on a titanium RDA (Rebuildable Drip Atomizer), the titanium would be less than an inch from his mouth. Those RDAs are really small.
Not titanium, but similar:
https://youtu.be/nKljEE9SCmA
There have been several reports of these exploding like this over the years. I have seen them. Injuries to hands, mouths and face. This is not a one off incident.
“They expanded, swelled, heated up, and burst into flame”...
Like explosives do?
Titanium use for the heating coils in ecigs:
https://youtu.be/O-arksEDiBc?t=253
You can make your own.
Cue the 007 skunk works, exploding battery cigarettes from Gold Finger!
I used to make my own. But, I suck at it.
No, explosives explode. Lithium Ion batteries expand and ignite at worst. There’s a difference.
As i said, possible, but still outside his mouth and nowhere near the amount of force required to break a mandible. Remember, no real damage to lips except a minor burn, but huge damage inside the mouth to the mandible but no damage to the upper incisors. Doesn’t make sense.
Poof, not boom. . . Nowhere near enough power to break a mandible. Not even enough to break a piece of balsa wood.
It actually makes perfect sense.
An RDA is basically a metal cup with small ventilation intake holes on the sides.
On the top is a big, gaping hole where the mouthpiece is.
If he took too many dry hits (The wicking material was too dry to vaporize anything) and kept hitting the activation button, and the titanium ignited, the force would go directly into his mouth. Like a shotgun shell.
Add the fact that his lips were wrapped around the drip tip at the time of it happening.
Therefore, his lips would be outside of the combustion area while his teeth would get the brunt of it.
And he pulled the tank off. . . Not a good idea.
For real.
I smoking Marlboros when I was seventeen and never had a pack blow up.
Even the high flame bic lighters never did either.
ROTFLMAO!
Class D fire extinguisher? He really said you’d need to have a class D fire extinguisher to put out your e-cig heating coil fire???? Really? Hilarious
We machine Titanium in our office for dental use, it’s a common medical metal, and we’re not required to have Class D fire extinguishers. You only need that if you have a major construct, say a fighter jet, made of Titanium that might catch fire! God save us from people like this video blogger with a little knowledge.
Your heating coil in your e-cig, if it were to ignite, would quickly flash and be gone, and all Titanium would be converted almost instantly to Titanium Oxide. . . there is so little there’s the danger is minuscule. It would self extinguish. It’s contained within a brass tube, that’s why you cant see it. E-juice base is mostly non-flammable. . . But you might get some alcohol residue and flavorings to ignite.
However, Titanium’s flash point (ignition temperature in air) is 610º C or 1130º F, and it’s highly unlikely any electronically regulated e-cig can reach that temperature. Perhaps if you shorted the battery out across the coil. . .
Almost all other heating elements are worse with lower flash points. . .
Kid could have been chewing on the wrong end.
Hey, I chewed on pencils(when I was in the third grade)
And both should have adequate venting in case of a battery flare out. A must have on a mech mod.
Switched 8 years ago, and never understood the attraction of sub-ohm pipe bombs.
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