Decompression Sickness Recovery
In eight scuba divers and one tender treated with recompression the diagnoses included DCS 3 arterial gas embolism AGE 1 and vascular headache 2. Immediate on the scene treatment consists of oxygen therapy and basic first aid. Diving Medicine Decompression Sickness A Self Directed Learning Mod Manifestations range from itching and minor pain to neurological symptoms cardiac collapse and death. Decompression sickness recovery . Residual clinical signs after. This is in spite of observations that bubbles can form without producing DCS and DCS can occur without apparent bubbles. Decompression sickness DCS also known as the bends is one of the few bad things that can happen to us as divers. It might occur when you surface from a dive too fast and the excess nitrogen in your body that has built up during the dive as a side effect of breathing air at a higher ambient pressure does not have time to be released from your body but instead forms bubbles. Decompression illness DCI is...