Whales and Caisson Disease

Munchausen's syndrome simulating caisson disease.

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 ...

Caisson disease in Thailand: Death rate

Caisson disease is an important condition that can be seen in diver. It is an important form of decompression illness that requires proper therapeutic management[1,2]. The problem can be sporadically seen in any coastal country. In Thailand, as a country with a long coastal line of more than one thousand kilometers, this problem can be seen. According to the recent report, this condition is an ...

Compressed Air Illness, or So-Called Caisson Disease

was to inflate the tunnel, as you would blow up a bladder, by corking up one end with a huge brick wall twelve feet thick and pumping in additional atmospheres. At the sea level the pressure of the atmosphere is well known to be about fifteen pounds per square inch ; but into this air-tight chamber the engineers pumped sometimes as much as an additional thirtyfive pounds to the square inch, so ...

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...