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 | | This is the most innocent of the mechanisms by which the spinal cord may be affected in decompression illness and is reversed by early recompression. | | | If sufficient bubbles are trapped in the lungs, there may be a mismatch of lung ventilation and perfusion, such that the diver complains of chest discomfort and breathlessness (pulmonary decompression illness, sometimes known as the chokes). | | | There are however, considerable in-vivo and some anecdotal clinical data which support the use of lignocaine (lidocaine). |
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http://www.sportsci.org/encyc/drafts/Decompression_sickness.doc
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| | ABC News: Deep-Diving Whales Suffer From Bends |
| | Decompression illness is caused when an air breather, such as human or a whale, is put under great pressure, such as in a deep dive, followed by a quick release of the pressure, as happens when a diver surfaces too quickly. | | | Moore said the study shows that the decompression injury commonly experienced by the sperm whale "is not associated with any modern industrial or man made changes over the last century." | | | As a result Moore said that any human activity that changes a whale's behavior could cause it to be further injured by the bends. |
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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=355647
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| | Diving Medicine |
| | These include neck muscle headache, hyperventilation vascular headache, sinus headache, fume headache, tension headache, dehydration headache, hypertensive headache, and (worst case) decompression illness. | | | Decompression sickness can affect skin, joints, muscle, abdomen, and brain. | | | Symptoms depend on where the bubbles form, but can include joint pain, muscle pain, spotty skin discoloration and swelling, abdominal pain, chest pain, shortness of breath, or neurological symptoms. |
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| | Decompression sickness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The physiologist John Haldane studied this problem in the early 20th century, eventually devising the method of staged, gradual decompression, whereby the pressure on the diver is released slowly enough that the nitrogen comes gradually out of solution without leading to DCS. | | | Even when the change in pressure causes no immediate symptoms, rapid pressure change can cause permanent bone injury called dysbaric osteonecrosis (DON) "bone cell death from bad pressure". | | | Decompression sickness can happen in any of the following situations: |
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| | Doc's Page |
| | In this case, the need to understand that the pain originated from an occluded coronary artery would be supplanted by an algorithm describing a course of action for acute pain in the chest. | | | Although their study is retrospective, they were able to identify changes in the flow-volume curve, specifically, reduced mid expiratory flow at 25% of vital capacity in pulmonary barotrauma patients compared to patients who had decompression sickness, but not pulmonary barotrauma. | | | The paper by Tetzloff et al, provides important clinical observations that support a role for prospective pulmonary function testing as a means of separating individuals with a history of reactive airway disease who can dive safely from those who might be at risk for pulmonary barotrauma. |
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| | DAN Divers Alert Network : Unexpected Decompression Illness |
| | We must have cases of decompression sickness, however: if we didn't, we wouldn't be able to estimate the relationship of preflight surface interval to DCI risk. | | | Although a "yes" to one of these questions does not automatically disqualify a potential subject from participation, further clarification is required to determine the nature and extent of the illness or injury. | | | The DMO will analyze "skills" that could be affected by decompression illness, including strength and coordination testing. |
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http://www.diversalertnetwork.org/medical/articles/article.asp?articleid=17
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| | Bubble Decompression Strategies |
| | Though Hills' ideas for decompression methods were firmly based in experiment, experience and theory, the resulting unconventional ascent schedules met with derision. | | | In the face of change, it is important to pause and critically examine decompression methods before conducting hyperbaric experiments on yourself. | | | During decompression, there are competing pathways for the flow of gas that has been absorbed by tissues while diving (Fig. |
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http://www.decompression.org/maiken/Bubble_Decompression_Strategies.htm
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| | Comparison between USN6 and Cx30 recompression schedules for DCI |
| | Indication for treatment of decompression illness based on a complete history and a thorough examination performed by a physician trained in diving and hyperbaric medicine as recognised by the trial investigators. | | | The scope of the investigation is to support the choice of initial treatment procedure. | | | Diagnosis of decompression illness and then randomized allocation into one of two arms being |
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| | DAN Divers Alert Network : Decompression Illness: What Is It and What Is The Treatment? |
| | Additional 1-liter boluses may be required to further correct dehydration and maintain blood pressure but should only be given by trained healthcare personnel capable of weighing the need for further fluid with possible complications. | | | If trained personnel are available, a urinary catheter should be placed in all unconscious divers and in those who cannot urinate. | | | A good example is what happens to your body when you're surfacing after a dive. |
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http://www.diversalertnetwork.org/medical/articles/article.asp?articleid=65
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| | Underwater Services L.L.C. - Replies |
| | Between going too rehabilitation therapy everyday and seeing my doctors, there is a lot of time left over for research into determining why this happened to me. The more research into Decompression Illness, the more apparent it became, one really could take a “hit” for no apparent reason. | | | At that time, all of our professional training, preparations, and experiences were put through the ultimate test of saving ones life. | | | Use the Feedback page to submit your comments! |
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| | Dive Girl: Women, Diving Medicine and Decompression Illness |
| | Most of this will focus on DCI (Decompression Illness), the bends, recompression and modern techniques such as dopler measurement. | | | We will also be talking about the work of decompression 'guru's', such as Bill Hamilton, Dr Max Hahn and Buhlmann. | | | Other matters of diving medicine will focus on the work of Dr Ann Kristovich. |
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http://www.divegirl.com/medicine.html
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| | Decompression Illness (The Bends) |
| | According to the article above 85% of people treated for decompression sickness were diving "within the limits". | | | It always worries me when people let little boxes do their thinking for them, and I'm not convinced that the box can take account of all the factors that affect decompression. | | | I didn't fancy that much, so although I'm not medically qualified, I read everything I could find about the subject, attended courses and conferences and subsequently taught the subject as an instructor. |
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| | THE MERCK MANUAL, Sec. 20, Ch. 285, Injury During Diving Or Work In Compressed Air |
| | Patients with spinal cord injury due to decompression sickness have a much more favorable prognosis than do those with cord injury due to other causes. | | | Lesions adjacent to articular surfaces, most common in the shoulder and hip, can damage the joint, causing chronic pain and severe disability. | | | Decompression illness includes conditions that require recompression (see below). |
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http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanual/section20/chapter285/285b.jsp
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| | Scientific Diving Safety Manual: Appendix 12 |
| | Classification of decompression illness should be by specific signs/symptoms to guide therapy and prognosis and provide improved data for analysis. | | | A zero bends incidence rate is desirable but not thought to be achievable in all types of commercial diving. | | | Divers are encouraged to learn and remember the signs and symptoms of decompression illness and report them promptly so as to receive effective treatment as rapidly as possible to prevent residual injury. |
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| | VCURES - Virginia Commonwealth University |
| | Spiess states “these studies will also advance our understanding of oxygen transport in many states of critical illness and injury”. | | | The proposed studies will build upon what has recently been learned and will focus upon the use of helium/oxygen mixtures and other techniques to see if the PFCs could be utilized prior to emergency surfacing. | | | These new studies will employ the novel use of retinal angiography as a means of studying the cerebral microcirculation in response to decompression illness and its treatment. |
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http://www.vcu.edu/vcures/news/news_05_navy_acute_decompression.htm
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| | Bloomberg.com: U.S. |
| | The study supports a theory that the illness, which causes severe pain and can be fatal, may occur in whales when they are driven to the surface to escape underwater noise pollution, such as the sounds produced by military sonar equipment. | | | ``We've always thought they could control their diving patterns to forage and reproduce and so on, but now we think they may need to manage their behavior for decompression,'' said Michael Moore, a co-author of the study who conducts research on whales for the Massachusetts-based institution. | | | Dec. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Sperm whales, like human divers, can get decompression illness when they rise to the surface from ocean depths at a faster than normal rate, according to a study published in tomorrow's issue of Science. |
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aY84SHAEb5zI&refer=us
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| | Safe Diving Poses No Risk for Brain Injury |
| | According to another study in the December 12 issue of Neurology, a patent foramen ovale, or an opening between two chambers in the heart, increases the risk of brain injury for divers. | | | "Previous studies have shown that recreational divers have a higher incidence of brain injury than the general population, but most of these studies were performed on divers with a history of decompression illness," said neurologist Guenther Deuschl, MD, study author from Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany. | | | Researchers studied divers with no history of decompression illness, which is caused by the release of gas bubbles into tissues when decompression occurs too fast. |
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| | Decompression illness -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | (Pain resulting from rapid change in pressure) Decompression sickness caused by gas coming out of solution. | | | See (Click link for more info and facts about Decompression_stops) Decompression_stops for how to avoid this condition. | | | Decompression illness (DCI) is any of the (Click link for more info and facts about diving disorder) diving disorders caused by the presence of bubbles of (A fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely) gas in the diver's body. |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/d/de/decompression_illness.htm
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| | CDNN :: Dive Medicine - Can Exercise Before Scuba Diving Prevent Decompression Illness? |
| | This finding may form the basis for a novel approach for preventing serious decompression sickness. | | | Following recent findings on rats, our research group from the University of Split School of Medicine, and colleagues from Norway published in Journal of Physiology a simple non-pharmacological procedure for decreasing bubble formation. | | | The most common decompression related problem in sports divers is injury of the central nervous system, the risk of which is higher with increasing number of bubbles. |
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| | 2001-03 Treating Decompression Illness |
| | Most treatment tables will take you to a depth of 60 feet for usual types of decompression sickness, to 100 feet when injuries are severe, and to 165 feet if the physician feels that brain injury from AGE is most likely to improve with greater bubble compression. | | | When you learn about therapy, you will discover that the most common treatment tables were developed by the United States Navy and have been in use for many years in the treatment of decompression illness. | | | Regardless of the seriousness of your symptom, your next step is to recognize the fact that you have decompression sickness or air embolism, and need recompression therapy. |
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http://www.skin-diver.com/departments/ScubaMed/mar01_illness.asp?theID=1463
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| | Scottish Diving Medicine - Decompression Illness |
| | There are conflicting studies showing the existence, or lack, of a relationship between a diver's age / gender and the incidence of decompression sickness. | | | Decompression sickness might also present as a skin (cutaneous) disorder. | | | Relationship between the clinical features of neurological decompression illness and its causes. |
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| | decompression sickness - research reports subject index ke... |
| | decompression sickness - research reports subject index ke... | | | RR 017 Neuro-behavioural impairment after neurological decompression illness | | | OTO 1996:801 Development of decompression procedures: based upon integrated analytic models of tissue gas bubble dynamics and oxygen tolerance. |
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| | Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine: Decompression sickness |
| | On the way up, decompression occurs (in other words, the water pressure drops), and with the change in pressure the extra nitrogen gradually diffuses out of the tissues and is delivered by the bloodstream to the lungs, which expel it from the body. | | | Some substitute the term decompression illness (DCI) for DCS. | | | Decompression sickness (DCS) is a dangerous and occasionally lethal condition caused by nitrogen bubbles that form in the blood and other tissues of scuba divers who surface too quickly. |
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| | Dive Girl: Decompression Illness, women and the bends, DCI, recompresion treatment |
| | If the person does have DCI you'll be promoting their recovery." Life however, is not always this simple. | | | "If you do get decompression sickness, take it seriously - even mild pain in a joint could be the indication of something more dangerous. | | | "It was such a relief to have my illness recognised. |
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| | Welcome to TDive.Com |
| | Pain in or near joint, dizziness, staggers, nausea, vomiting, visual disturbance, hearing difficulties, speech problems, paralysis, loss of feelings, pins and needles, lower back or abdominal pain, inability to urinate, pain chest, breathing difficulty, shortness of breath, swelling in neck with crackling under the skin, blue color of skin, lips, fingernails. | | | All you want to know about the Bends Decompression illness | | | This gas must be eliminated by decompression, so the gas can diffuse from the tissues to the bloodstream to be transported to the lungs to be eliminated. |
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| | Welcome to the SSS Recompression Chamber Diver Safety Network |
| | Diagnosis of DCI is done by our SSS Physicians. | | | The Diagnosis of Decompression Illness is not an exact science but an experienced physician using his aquired knowledge and the information at hand can make a clinical assessment. | | | Decompression Illness is a term which includes arterial gas embolism and decompression sickness. |
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| | Non-Linear Ascent Profiles Reduce the Risk of Decompression Illness After Deep No-Stop Dives - Storming Media |
| | A similar study, but of paired, randomized, investigator-blind, sequential design was performed with pigs breathing 80/20% heliox. | | | Abstract: The influence of no-stop ascent profile shape on decompression illness (DCI) risk after deep air and heliox dives was investigated using a swine model of neurological DCI. | | | Non-Linear Ascent Profiles Reduce the Risk of Decompression Illness After Deep No-Stop Dives |
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| | DIY DECOMPRESSION |
| | The author accepts no responsibility for any errors contained within this article or injuries or illness arising from using the information contained here, or any applications to which it is put. | | | Decompression modelling is not representing what is going on within the body, it is simply a mathematical function which spits out figures which do not kill us. | | | These are all based on notes which I have used to write decompression software in both C and Visual Basic. |
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| | Scottish Diving Medicine - Reducing the Risk of DCI |
| | It is important that you are aware of the type of experience required for a specific dive site / holiday. | | | Many factors can influence the development and potential severity of Decompression Illness. | | | chest/ ear infections), previous decompression illness, physical injury and obesity can all increase the risk of suffering from DCI. |
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http://www.sdm.scot.nhs.uk/decompression_illness/reducing_the_risk.htm
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| | Re: Psychological effects of decompression illness |
| | I'm doing a doctorate in clinical psychology and want to research this area for my thesis... | | | Re: Psychological effects of decompression illness -- Eloise1 | | | If i can be of any help please feel free to drop me a line. |
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| | What are the Symptoms of Decompression Illness? |
| | The following table has been adapted from Davidson's Principles and Practice of Medicine (see | | | Spinal symptoms of decompression illness may include pins and needles, low back pain or paralysis. | | | Decompression illness is a serious condition, and even minor symptoms must be recognised and medical advice sought at the earliest opportunity. |
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| | Decompression Illness |
| | London Hyperbaric Medicine Ltd offer recompression treatment for divers under the NHS. | | | The only effective treatment for decompression illness is recompression, preferably in a | | | bends', or decompression illness as it is medically |
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| | Diving Doctor - Diver Magazine December 1998 |
| | In general, they have to determine, in as much detail as possible, exactly what happened to you at an anatomical and physiological level. | | | Therefore, in this column I am going to show you how to analyze the problem and give you my personal response for some of these situations. | | | Sure enough, as the diver is carrying his equipment up the hill to his car, he develops a mild but constant, deep pain in his left elbow. |
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| | eMedicine - Decompression Illness : Article Excerpt by: Scott H Plantz, MD, FAAEM |
| | Two types of decompression sickness exist: Type I involves the muscles, skin, and lymphatics. | | | Please click here to view the full topic text: Decompression Illness | | | To prevent decompression illness, do not fly on an airplane for at least 12 hours after 2 hours of total dive time during the previous 2 days |
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| | Govt to address decompression illness in the country - Fiji Government Online |
| | Mr Naivalu said a concerted effort in the way of awareness, training and diving equipment assistance can bring about change. | | | Govt to address decompression illness in the country | | | Mr Naivalu said while milder cases of the decompression illness can be treated locally at divisional and subdivisional hospitals, serious cases are referred to Suva for treatment in the decompression chamber. |
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| | eScuba: Scuba article: Giving Decompression Illness the (Pink) Slip |
| | He called DAN, who referred him to a local physician trained in diving medicine. | | | When no other reason could be found for these symptoms, decompression illness (DCI) became a more probable diagnosis. | | | The Discussion: It's not uncommon for divers to have a normal neurological exam and still have decompression illness. |
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| | Scuba Nitrox Diver Magazine Rebreathers |
| | Wienke, B.R. (1991), Basic Decompression Theory and Application, Best Publishing Co., Flagstaff, AZ. | | | Decompression illness (DCI) or "bends" occurs when the elimination of gas from the body's tissues is inadequate to parallel the rate of external pressure decrease resulting in the supersaturation of gas in the tissues. | | | Since stimulation of the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system causes a number of chemical changes within the muscular system, it appears quite possible that these changes may make the body more susceptible to decompression illness. |
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| | Divester |
| | The narrative of their painful deaths chilled me to the bone. | | | Decompression illness or any other decompression accidents is my worst nightmare, i hope it will never happen to me. This is why you should always be prepared. | | | There are actually several great articles here that any and all divers should peruse, if just to add to your knowledge of some of the dangers of diving and to increase your general knowledge of the sport. |
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http://www.divester.com/2005/03/24/decomp
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| | Diving After Decompression Illness |
| | There are many conditions that increase the risk of DCI. | | | This Information sheet is designed for divers who are planning to return to diving after decompression illness (DCI). | | | You should usually have a gap of at least 3 months after the incident before diving again or the Hyperbaric Doctor in charge of your treatment may specify a time period. |
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http://www.peebsac.ukdiver.com/peebsac_dci.htm
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| | Coping with the Bends (Decompression illness) - Dave Harasti |
| | During the trip I noticed that I got some pins and needles in my hand on the 4th dive of the day. | | | I think I've clocked up over 900 dives, it's a bit hard to tell because there is thing called a logbook which you are apparently meant to use to remind you of where you were and on what day… I kind of regularly forget to fill it out. | | | Coping with the Bends (Decompression illness) - Dave Harasti |
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| | General Advice |
| | Decompression illness is a potentially fatal condition and can result in severe long-term effects such as paralysis. | | | If you become affected by decompression illness, your life will be in their hands. | | | Even if your dive was conducted safely and you begin to experience some symptoms, do not assume that you cannot be suffering from decompression illness. |
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http://www.portfolio.mvm.ed.ac.uk/studentwebs/session4/65/dciadvice.htm
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| | Scottish Diving Medicine - Treatment for Decompression Illness |
| | Scottish Diving Medicine - Treatment for Decompression Illness | | | The definitive treatment for any form of decompression illness is recompression in a hyperbaric chamber. | | | Bear in mind that there may be more than one diver in the group with decompression illness. |
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| | DECOMPRESSION ILLNESS - a patient's guide |
| | Other acute illnesses that may mimic decompression illnesses include hyperventilation, hysteria, side effects of drugs especially mefloquine (Lariam), and acute cerebrovascular event (stroke) while some incipient illnesses e.g. | | | The diagnosis may be arrived at from an analysis of the symptoms, physical findings, and response to recompression. | | | There is no single diagnostic test for decompression illness. |
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| | Decompression illness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | See Decompression_stops for how to avoid this condition. | | | Decompression illness (DCI) is any of the diving disorders caused by the presence of bubbles of gas in the diver's body. | | | Decompression sickness - caused by gas that has been adsorbed in the body at high pressure coming out of solution. |
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| | DECOMPRESSION ILLNESS |
| | Translations for "DECOMPRESSION ILLNESS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | | | Joint pains, respiratory distress, and central nervous system symptoms which may follow decompression after exposure to air or other gas mixture at a pressure greater than the normal atmospheric pressure. | | | dysbarisme (aeroembolism, caisson disease, caisson sickness, compressed air disease, compressed air illness, decompression sickness, ebullism). |
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| | Decompression illness or DCI is the name for the group of diving disorders that causes bubbles of gas in the diver's bodyconsisting of Air embolism and decompression sickness. |
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