Decompression syndrome (Caisson disease) in an Indian diver

Decompression sickness in caisson workers.

El Ghawabi, S. H., Mansour, M. B., Youssef, F. L., El Ghawabi, M. H., and Abd El Latif, M. M. (1971). Brit. J. industr. Med., 28, 323-329. Decompression sickness in caisson workers. An investigation of 55 bridge construction workers is reported. The overall bends rate was 097 %. (The term 'bends' as used in this study is defined in the paper.) Chokes were encountered in 67-27% of workers. A cli...

Munchausen's syndrome simulating caisson disease.

Decompression sickness during the sinking of a caisson; a study of some factors in the pathogenesis of caisson disease.

Most of the studies of decompression sickness in industry have been made during the construction of tunnels. The sinking of a caisson, however, is a much briefer undertaking involving certain special features not encountered in tunnel work. Work of this type has received relatively little attention in recent years, although caisson sinking is performed all over the world. This paper describes a...

A case of "unexplained" decompression sickness in a commercial diver.

While working in the Gulf of Mexico, a 24-year-old male commercial diver developed decompression sickness (DCS) with neurological involvement (Type II DCS). This occurred despite closely adhering to US Navy decompression tables that divers follow upon slowly resurfacing from the ocean depths (so-called unexplained DCS). The patient required therapy in a decompression chamber, and subsequently h...

Aseptic necrosis of bone in caisson disease.

Caisson disease, or decompression sickness, is encountered when a raised atmospheric pressure on the body is reduced too rapidly and excess gases which have been held in solution in the blood and tissue fluids are set free as their solubility decreases. Typically the condition is manifested by tingling and paraesthesia, itching of the skin, and by bone and joint pains. The symptoms vary within ...