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Risk Related Incorrect Decompression, Stage Ascent Procedures with the Use of Decompression Tables as a type of Preventive Actions Against the Effects of Decompression

open access: yesScientific Journal of Gdynia Maritime University, 2023
The article presents what decompression is, how to perform it correctly using dive ascent tables, and the typical symptoms of decompression sickness.
Katarzyna Mielniczek   +1 more
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Risk factors of decompression sickness in scuba diving

open access: yesJournal of Education, Health and Sport, 2020
BackgroundRecreational diving with aqualung can be called an extreme sport because the divers are exposed to physical and psychological risks. A serious danger in diving is the very exposure to a change in pressure underwater, which every diver must deal
Oliwia Pińkowska   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Brain multi-infarct and decompression sickness [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Emergency Practice and Trauma, 2018
Scuba diving is associated with an important risk of devel­oping decompression sickness secondary to formation of gas bubbles inside the body. The latter is formed mainly by nitrogen in the body on the diver’s way to the surface (1,2).
Luis Rafael Moscote-Salazar   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Paraplegia and decompression sickness [PDF]

open access: yesSpinal Cord, 1995
Decompression sickness may include spinal cord damage, which sometimes persists. Casual divers are exposed, as well as professionals. In this study we have reviewed the clinical records of divers admitted with symptoms of spinal cord injuries in our area in the last 6 years.
H, Tournebise   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Comparison of Newer Hand-Held Ultrasound Devices for Post-Dive Venous gas Emboli Quantification to Standard Echocardiography

open access: yesFrontiers in Physiology, 2022
Decompression sickness (DCS) can result from the growth of bubbles in tissues and blood during or after a reduction in ambient pressure, for example in scuba divers, compressed air workers or astronauts.
Kamellia Karimpour   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Comments on unresponsive decompression illness case

open access: yesJournal of Intensive Care, 2018
We have read the case report about a decompression sickness that was unresponsive to hyperbaric oxygen treatment in your journal. Presented case is intriguing; however, we think there are some contradictive issues in the discussion of the case.
Bengusu Mirasoglu, Samil Aktas
doaj   +1 more source

Trust and Occupational Safety Behavior Related to Decompressive Diseases on Bajo Ethnic Divers

open access: yesDiversity, 2023
The total area of Indonesian waters exceeds the land area, so the sea becomes one of the land community's livelihoods. Majority of the Bajo ethnic community work as traditional diver fisherman.
Fatmawaty Mallapiang   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Multifocal, bone manifestation of decompression sickness in a professional pilot: A case report

open access: yesMedycyna Pracy, 2013
Decompression sickness is a group of pathological processes occurring in the body, following its exposure to an excessive drop in atmospheric pressure.
Anna Kuśmierska   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Decompressive Pathology in Cetaceans Based on an Experimental Pathological Model

open access: yesFrontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021
Decompression sickness (DCS) is a widely known clinical syndrome in human medicine, mainly in divers, related to the formation of intravascular and extravascular gas bubbles.
Alicia Velázquez-Wallraf   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Decompression sickness in naval divers

open access: yesJournal of Marine Medical Society, 2015
Introduction: Diving is a n operational commitment of navy. Diving operations are conducted with I without the presence of a MM spl. Study of MM done along with phases of attachments at different diving operational units as practical orientation. Classes
D K Ghosh   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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