Brain multi-infarct and decompression sickness

Hypobaric Decompression Sickness and Adynamia

INTRODUCTION A large discrepancy exists between ground-based estimates of decompression sickness (DCS) incidence during simulated extra-vehicular activity (EVA) and actual reports of DCS from EVA crewmembers. The discrepancy could be due to the effect of gravity during ground-based DCS studies. The lack of weight-bearing loads (sometimes named adynamia) will relieve pressure within the joints, ...

Goodbye Decompression Sickness

by T.J.R. Francis, D.J. Smith and J.J. W. Sykes, Institute of Naval Medicine, Hampshire, England. The current means by which we classify decompression sickness dates back only 30 years to the experience gained during the construction of the Dartford Tunnel in London. Golding et al [1] proposed a system for decompression sickness based upon perceived severity of the cases which arose in the cais...

Decompression sickness: a review.

Work in compressed air is a dangerous activity, whether it is carried on under water in a conventional diving suit, in self-contained breathing apparatus or in a diving bell, or in relatively dry conditions in a caisson or an underwater tunnel. Surprisingly large numbers of men have worked at one time or another in compressed air in tunnels or caissons and it is the dangers which arise to the h...

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...

Histopathology of Experimental Decompression Sickness.

Parameter estimation in decompression sickness

It is critical that scuba divers and submariners can assess the possible effects of changes in pressure of their surrounding atmosphere as otherwise they may be affected by the “bends” (or, to use its more formal name, Decompression Sickness (DCS)) which can be severely debilitating and even fatal. For scuba diving there is an enormous literature on how to change water depth safely to avoid any...