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Occupational medicine

Compressed-air workers' decompression illness

In occupational and diving medicine, caisson disease is the historical name for decompression sickness as it struck workers leaving the compressed-air chambers of pneumatic caissons and tunnels: joint pain, paralysis, and collapse arising when inert gas taken up under pressure came out of solution as bubbles on return to normal pressure. Boycott, Damant, and Haldane's 1908 The prevention of compressed-air illness established the pressure-ratio limits and staged decompression that control it. The referent is a bubble-related illness of compressed-gas exposure, which took its name from the engineering structure in which it was first seen but is otherwise an entirely different thing from the foundation element.[1]

Unit
The severity of bubble-related injury after leaving the compressed-air environment
Recovery means
Resolves with recompression and controlled, staged return to normal pressure
Measured by
Related to the chamber pressure, time at pressure, and rate of decompression on exit

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References

  1. Boycott, A. E., Damant, G. C. C., & Haldane, J. S. (1908). The prevention of compressed-air illness. Journal of Hygiene, 8(3), 342–443. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022172400003399

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