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Reports of Meetings

+ ve G) were countered with limited success by pressure suits, horizontal posture, etcUpward forces (i.e. ve G) were less well tolerated. Whereas the former caused first greying out due to loss of colour vision, then blacking out and final unconsciousnessi recovery usually took place on removal of the stress in good time. On the other hand* with negative G a red out occurred, leading to cerebra...

Reports of Meetings

The seventh post-war meeting of the Surgical Club of South West England ^vaS held at the Royal Cornwall Infirmary, Truro, on May 2nd and 3rd, 1952. On the Friday morning demonstration operations were performed by Mr. T. E. RutteR (Truro), Mr. S. R. Adlington (Falmouth) and Mr. C. B. O'Carroll (Falmouth), after which specimens and X-rays were discussed until lunch-time. During the afternoon four...

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Reports of Other Diving and Hyperbaric Meetings

If we are using the Duocom, we initially compress to 18 msw with the intention of treating using a RN Table 62 profile of pressure and time. We have the option of going to 50 msw in deteriorating cases. On arrival in Townsville, the diver is transferred, under pressure, to the main chamber in the Hyperbaric Medicine Unit of the Townsville General Hospital (Figure 3), where the treatment profile...