Diving - Injuries
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Monday, November 23, 2009

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...

Posttraumatic appendicitis: further extending the extended Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma examination.

30 May 2009 Several cases of appendicitis after blunt abdominal trauma have been reported in the literature. A 41-year-old man on a cruise ship began to experience acute abdominal pain several hours after cliff diving from a 20-ft height and landing hard ... Read more...

Risk of neurological decompression sickness in the diver with a right-to-left shunt: literature review and meta-analysis.

29 Apr 2009 OBJECTIVE: Literature review and meta-analysis to review the evidence of relationship between the presence of right-to-left shunts (RLSs) and the occurrence of neurological decompression sickness (DCS) in divers. DATA SOURCES: MEDLINE, Google ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Diving - Injuries'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The deepest dive: how far down can a free diver go? 22 Aug 2009
• Diving medicine: a review of current evidence. 29 Jun 2009
• Posttraumatic appendicitis: further extending the extended Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma examination. 30 May 2009
• Risk of neurological decompression sickness in the diver with a right-to-left shunt: literature review and meta-analysis. 29 Apr 2009
• Low-back problems in recreational self-contained underwater breathing apparatus divers: prevalence and specific risk factors. 30 Mar 2009
• Pulmonary barotrauma in divers during emergency free ascent training: review of 124 cases. 30 Mar 2009
• [Acute hearing loss from scuba-diving holidays: diagnosis and treatment of barotrauma of the inner ear] 27 Feb 2009
• A cervical spine model to predict injury scenarios and clinical instability. 27 Feb 2009
• Cerebral magnetic resonance imaging of compressed air divers in diving accidents. 30 Dec 2008
• Cerebral white-matter lesions in asymptomatic military divers. 30 Dec 2008
• Common causes of open-circuit recreational diving fatalities. 30 Oct 2008
• Spinal cord injuries due to diving: a framework and call for prevention. 30 Oct 2008
• Determining standards for professional divers diving in benzene polluted waters. 30 Aug 2008
• Air in the right ventricle after a deep dive. 6 Aug 2008
• Diving-related injuries in children <20 years old treated in emergency departments in the United States: 1990-2006. 30 Jul 2008
• Diving accidents treated at a military hospital-based recompression chamber facility in Peninsular Malaysia. 30 May 2008
• Paranasal sinus barotrauma in sports self-contained underwater breathing apparatus divers. 21 May 2008
• Taking the plunge: diving risk practices and perceptions of New Zealand youth. 30 Mar 2008
• Estimation and confidence regions for multi-dimensional effective dose. 30 Jan 2008
• Recompression treatment for decompression illness: 5-year report (2003-2007) from National Centre for Hyperbaric Medicine in Poland. 30 Dec 2007

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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