Decompression Sickness
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Neurological symptoms after a provocative dive: spinal DCS or anterior spinal artery syndrome?

29 Sep 2009 Reported here is a 37-yr-old professional diving instructor who had developed complaints of back pain and weakness in the lower extremities after diving. He was eventually diagnosed as having spinal cord decompression sickness along with a likely ... Read more...

Unilateral optic disc swelling in a fighter pilot.

29 Sep 2009 Optic disc swelling occurs when there is an obstruction to axonal transport at the level of the lamina cribrosa. This may result from compression, ischemia, inflammation, or metabolic and toxic etiologies. Some of these etiologies may be life ... Read more...

[Hyperbaric Oxygenation - utility in intensive therapy - part 1]

9 Sep 2009 Hyperbaric Oxygenation (HBO) is a medical treatment, in which a patient breathes 100 % oxygen inside a treatment chamber at a pressure higher than at sea level. The indication for HBO has to be considered whenever gas bubbles present in tissue or ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Decompression Sickness'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Neurological symptoms after a provocative dive: spinal DCS or anterior spinal artery syndrome? 29 Sep 2009
• Unilateral optic disc swelling in a fighter pilot. 29 Sep 2009
• [Hyperbaric Oxygenation - utility in intensive therapy - part 1] 9 Sep 2009
• [Scuba diving and hyperbaric medicine] 17 Aug 2009
• Decompression sickness rates for chamber personnel: case series from one facility. 30 May 2009
• Hyperbaric oxygen pretreatment according to the gas micronuclei denucleation hypothesis reduces neurologic deficit in decompression sickness in rats. 19 May 2009
• Effect of in-water recompression with oxygen to 6 msw versus normobaric oxygen breathing on bubble formation in divers. 6 May 2009
• Could beaked whales get the bends? Effect of diving behaviour and physiology on modelled gas exchange for three species: Ziphius cavirostris, Mesoplodon densirostris and Hyperoodon ampullatus. 5 May 2009
• Retinal angiography: noninvasive, real-time bubble assessment from the ocular fundus. 29 Apr 2009
• Risk of neurological decompression sickness in the diver with a right-to-left shunt: literature review and meta-analysis. 29 Apr 2009
• Resolution and severity in decompression illness. 29 Apr 2009
• Sharing a problem. We all should do more of it. 29 Apr 2009
• Fracture of a GORE HELEX septal occluder following PFO closure in a diver. 29 Apr 2009
• Sponge divers of the Aegean and medical consequences of risky compressed-air dive profiles. 30 Mar 2009
• Pulmonary barotrauma in divers during emergency free ascent training: review of 124 cases. 30 Mar 2009
• Dominance in cardiac parasympathetic activity during real recreational SCUBA diving. 9 Mar 2009
• Hyperbaric oxygen in neurosurgery. 9 Mar 2009
• [Basic principles of diver medical certification] 27 Feb 2009
• Guiding principles in choosing a therapeutic table for DCI hyperbaric therapy. 27 Feb 2009
• Dual-frequency ultrasound detection of stationary microbubbles in tissue. 27 Feb 2009

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Technical information about 'Decompression Sickness'

Definition: A condition occurring as a result of exposure to a rapid fall in ambient pressure. Gases, nitrogen in particular, come out of solution and form bubbles in body fluid and blood. These gas bubbles accumulate in joint spaces and the peripheral circulation impairing tissue oxygenation causing disorientation, severe pain, and potentially death.

Descriptor UI: D003665

Alternative terms: Decompression Sickness; Sickness, Decompression; Caisson Disease; Caisson Diseases; Disease, Caisson; Diseases, Caisson; Bends;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C21.866.120.248;