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S2k guideline for diving accidents

GMS German Medical Science, 2023
For the purposes of this guideline, a diving accident is defined as an event that is either potentially life-threatening or hazardous to health as a result of a reduction in ambient pressure while diving or in other hyperbaric atmospheres with and ...
Jüttner, Björn, Wölfel, Christian, Camponovo, Claudio, Schöppenthau, Holger, Meyne, Johannes, Wohlrab, Carmen, Werr, Henning, Klein, Till, Schmeißer, Giso, Theiß, Karsten, Wolf, Philipp, Müller, Oliver, Janisch, Thorsten, Naser, Johannes, Blödt, Susanne, Muche-Borowski, Cathleen   +15 more
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Complete Recovery of an Iatrogenic Venous Gaseous Embolism (VGE) Clinical Presentation Thanks to a Timely Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) Treatment

Oxygen, 2022
Gas embolism is a potentially fatal occurrence in which bubbles are introduced into the arterial/venous circulation. A multifocal ischemia could be the life-threatening scenario of that and occurring after diving-related activities, or pulmonary ...
Vincenzo Zanon, Silvia Magri, Giulia Bonera, Enrico Camporesi   +3 more
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Livedo Racemosa – The Pathophysiology of Decompression-Associated Cutis Marmorata and Right/Left Shunt

Frontiers in Physiology, 2020
Decompression sickness and arterial gas embolism, collectively known as decompression illness (DCI), are serious medical conditions that can result from compressed gas diving. DCI can present with a wide range of physiologic and neurologic symptoms.
Frank Hartig, Norbert Reider, Martin Sojer, Alexander Hammer, Thomas Ploner, Claus-Martin Muth, Herbert Tilg, Andrea Köhler   +7 more
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Dysbarism: An Overview of an Unusual Medical Emergency

Medicina, 2022
Dysbarism is a general term which includes the signs and symptoms that can manifest when the body is subject to an increase or a decrease in the atmospheric pressure which occurs either at a rate or duration exceeding the capacity of the body to adapt ...
Gabriele Savioli, Claudia Alfano, Christian Zanza, Gaia Bavestrello Piccini, Angelica Varesi, Ciro Esposito, Giovanni Ricevuti, Iride Francesca Ceresa   +7 more
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Recompression and adjunctive therapy for decompression illness [PDF]

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2005
Decompression illness (DCI) is due to bubble formation in the blood or tissues following the breathing of compressed gas. Clinically, DCI may range from a trivial illness to loss of consciousness, death or paralysis. Recompression is the universally accepted standard for the treatment of DCI.
Jan P Lehm, Jason Wasiak, Michael H Bennett, Simon J Mitchell   +3 more
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Decompression illness - critical review

Journal of Marine Medical Society, 2015
Decompression illness is caused by intravascular or extravascular bubbles that are formed as a result of reduction in environmental pressure (decompression).
C S Mohanty, D K Ghosh, C Kodange, Rohit Verma   +3 more
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Patent Foramen Ovale—A Not So Innocuous Septal Atrial Defect in Adults

Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease, 2021
Patent foramen ovale (PFO) is a common congenital atrial septal defect with an incidence of 15–35% in the adult population. The development of the interatrial septum is a process that begins in the fourth gestational week and is completed only after ...
Veronica Romano, Carlo Maria Gallinoro, Rosita Mottola, Alessandro Serio, Franca Di Meglio, Clotilde Castaldo, Felice Sirico, Daria Nurzynska   +7 more
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Abdominal decompression for abdominal compartment syndrome in critically ill patients: a retrospective study [PDF]

, 2010
Background. The abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS) refers to organ dysfunction that may occur as a result of increased intra-abdominal pressure (IAP). Successful management may require abdominal decompression and temporary abdominal closure (TAC).
Ceelen, Wim, De laet, Inneke, De Waele, Jan, Desender, Liesbeth, Hoste, Eric, Pattyn, Piet   +5 more
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Effects of different simulated submarine escape depths by free ascent in animal models

Frontiers in Physiology, 2023
Objective: If a damaged submarine cannot be rescued in time, it is necessary to carry out a submarine escape by free ascent. Decompression illness is the greatest threat to the safety of submariners.
Xiao Chen Bao, Nan Wang, Ji Xu, Jun Ma, Yi-Qun Fang   +4 more
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How to deal with an open abdomen? [PDF]

, 2015
Appropriate open abdomen treatment is one of the key elements in the management of patients who require decompressive laparotomy or in whom the abdomen is left open prophylactically.
Bjorck, Martin, De Waele, Jan, Kaplan, Mark, Sibaja, Pablo, Sugrue, Michael   +4 more
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