Diving - Adverse effects
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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...

[Scuba diving and hyperbaric medicine]

17 Aug 2009 Scuba diving is widely practiced in Switzerland. Although rare, decompression sickness may be serious and require specialized treatment. Hyperbaric therapy has been used for a long time with beneficial effects on decompression sickness and gaseous ... Read more...

Diving medicine: a review of current evidence.

29 Jun 2009 Recreational scuba diving is a growing sport worldwide, with an estimated 4 million sport divers in the United States alone. Because divers may seek medical care for a disorder acquired in a remote location, physicians everywhere should be familiar ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Diving - Adverse effects'

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
• The deepest dive: how far down can a free diver go? 22 Aug 2009
• [Scuba diving and hyperbaric medicine] 17 Aug 2009
• Diving medicine: a review of current evidence. 29 Jun 2009
• Hyperbaric oxygen pretreatment according to the gas micronuclei denucleation hypothesis reduces neurologic deficit in decompression sickness in rats. 19 May 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
• The prevalence of orofacial pain and tooth fracture (odontocrexis) associated with SCUBA diving. 30 Mar 2009
• Low-back problems in recreational self-contained underwater breathing apparatus divers: prevalence and specific risk factors. 30 Mar 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
• [Problems and challenges in future aviation and diving medicine] 21 Mar 2009
• [Acute hearing loss from scuba-diving holidays: diagnosis and treatment of barotrauma of the inner ear] 27 Feb 2009
• Time course of carbon monoxide transfer factor after breath-hold diving. 27 Feb 2009
• Risk of decompression sickness in extreme human breath-hold diving. 27 Feb 2009
• Barodontalgia. 24 Feb 2009
• Exploiting otoacoustic emission testing to identify clinical and subclinical inner ear barotrauma in divers: potential risk factor for sensorineural hearing loss. 30 Jan 2009
• Post-mortems in recreational scuba diver deaths: the utility of radiology. 29 Jan 2009
• Perfluorocarbon emulsions as a promising technology: a review of tissue and vascular gas dynamics. 27 Jan 2009

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Technical information about 'Diving'

Definition: An activity in which the organism plunges into water. It includes scuba and bell diving. Diving as natural behavior of animals goes here, as well as diving in decompression experiments with humans or animals.

Descriptor UI: D004242

Alternative terms: Diving; Divings;

Related Mesh Headings: Decompression Sickness; Inert Gas Narcosis;

Allowable Qualifiers: injuries; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics; adverse effects; physiology; classification; economics; education; history;

Tree Number: I03.450.642.845.869.110; N06.230.150.150;

History Note: was in Cat G only 1975-80; was in Cat E only 1968-74; was in Cat E & J 1963-67

Technical Notes: human & animal; /adv eff permitted for hazards of diving as a Cat G3 concept, /inj permitted for diving as a sport in Cat I: coord IM with specific inj (IM); /physiol permitted; includes scuba & bell diving