Table 2.

Blast wave characteristics.

Injury	Peak pressure (psi)	Duration (ms)	Impulse (psi*ms)	Rise time (ms)
3 × 1 h Blast	16.40 ± 1.54	2.19 ± 0.15	13.03 ± 1.20	0.03 ± 0.033

Ten-week-old Sprague Dawley rats weighing 275.6 ± 10.5 g were anesthetized and exposed to three blast insults separated by 1 h each. Sham animals underwent all procedures with the exception of the blast insult. The average peak pressure resulted in a blast wave magnitude of approximately 17 psi. Results are represented as Mean ± SEM.