Yu, Elaine Valdivia-Valdivia, Juan M Silva, Fernando Lindholm, Peter
AbstractBreath-hold divers, also known as freedivers, are at risk of specific injuries that are unique from those of surface swimmers and compressed air divers. Using peer-reviewed scientific research and expert opinion, we created a guide for medical providers managing breath-hold diving injuries in the field. Hypoxia induced by prolonged apnea an...
Lee, Kyoungmi Kim, In Byung Lim, Jae Hoon
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The American Journal of Case Reports
Patient: Female, 82-year-old Final Diagnosis: Venous air embolism Symptoms: Chest discomfort • dizziness • headache Clinical Procedure: — Specialty: Toxicology Objective: Unusual clinical course Background: A venous air embolism is a rare condition but could have a disastrous effect on vital organs. It usually occurs due to iatrogenic sources, such...
Kassar, Emily V Bass, Jessica R Douglas, Elena Speake, Mark R
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The American journal of case reports
BACKGROUND Deep sea diving can cause decompression illness which comprises both decompression sickness and arterial gas embolism. Decompression sickness is a clinical diagnosis with symptoms including dizziness, joint pain, rash, and myalgias and is due to nitrogen bubbles that form in tissues during ascent. These gas bubbles can be clinically sile...
Popa, Daniel Medak, Anthony Chin, Walter Huchim-Lara, Oswaldo Fliszar, Evelyne Hughes, Tudor Grover, Ian
IntroductionArtisanal diving fishermen in Yucatán, Mexico have high rates of decompression sickness as a result of frequently unsafe diving practices with surface supplied compressed air. In this study, we investigated the prevalence of dysbaric osteonecrosis (DON), a type of avascular necrosis, in the most susceptible joints in a cohort of these f...
Bralow, Leah Marion Piehl, Mark
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MedEdPORTAL : the Journal of Teaching and Learning Resources
Introduction Arterial gas embolism (AGE) is a rare but severe complication of scuba diving. While AGE is most commonly encountered in coastal areas with high volumes of recreational divers, at-risk populations exist throughout the United States, making basic knowledge of the disease important for all emergency medicine (EM) physicians. Methods We u...
Schwartz, Taylor Gough-Fibkins, Shawn Santini, Roberta Kopylov, David
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Journal of radiology case reports
This case report depicts the radiologic findings of a 51-year-old male presenting with Decompression Sickness. Decompression Sickness is diagnosed clinically, therefore radiologic imaging of this disease entity is limited. Our patient's history includes a scuba dive to depth of 110 feet with a descending time of 24 minutes and an ascending time of ...
Zhang, Xiao C. Golden, Antoinette Bullard, David S.
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MedEdPORTAL : the Journal of Teaching and Learning Resources
Introduction Decompression sickness (DCS) is a rare and dangerous complication from a rapid decrease in environmental pressure, commonly seen in patients leaving a compressed-air environment, such as scuba divers, aviators, and deep tunnel workers. Failure to clinically diagnose and adequately treat DCS with hydration and supplemental oxygen before...
Nikolaev, Viktor Petrovich Grigoriev, Anatolii Ivanovich
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Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences
The accident prevention, health preservation and maintenance of efficiency in divers exposed to decompression and the risk of decompression sickness onset is the fundamental problem of diving physiology and medicine. The authors examined the nature of decompression sickness; the biophysical basis for modeling the processes provoked its initiation, ...
Buzzacott, P Papadopoulou, V Baddeley, A Petri, NM Lind, F
BACKGROUND: Deep decompression stops are increasingly common in recreational technical diving. Concerns exist that they shift decompression stress back into slower tissues. A diver recorded an exceptional exposure dive, with deeps stops, on a commercially available dive computer.MATERIAL AND METHODS: Using the R package SCUBA tissue inert gas press...
Buzzacott, Peter Lambrechts, Kate Mazur, Aleksandra Wang, Qiong Papadopoulou, Virginie Theron, Michael Balestra, Costantino Guerrero, François
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Computers in biology and medicine
This model is reliable for the prediction of DCS status providing the dive profile and rat characteristics are within the range of parameters used to optimise the model. The addition of data with a wider range of parameters should improve the applicability of the model.