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decompression sickness: a standalone construct

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decompressionsickness1 CONSTRUCTDecompression sicknessHALDANE · BUBBLES

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Diving & hyperbaric medicine

Bubbles form in tissue when pressure drops too fast

Decompression sickness is the illness that results when ambient pressure falls faster than the body can eliminate dissolved inert gas, so that gas comes out of solution as bubbles in blood and tissue, producing joint pain ("the bends"), neurological signs, skin and pulmonary symptoms. Boycott, Damant, and Haldane's 1908 The prevention of compressed-air illness established the pressure-ratio basis of the condition and the staged-ascent approach that prevents it, and Diving and subaquatic medicine sets out its modern classification and treatment by recompression. First named caisson disease among compressed-air workers, it is the clinical counterpart of a tissue that has not been allowed to off-gas during a controlled decompression.[1][2]

Unit
The severity and distribution of bubble-related injury after a given decompression
Recovery means
Symptoms often resolve with prompt recompression and hyperbaric oxygen as bubbles are resorbed
Measured by
Classified by symptom type and severity and related to the dive's depth-time profile and ascent rate

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decompression2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructscaisson1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone constructoutgassing3 fields · 3 citationsinvariant · one construct, three systems

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
  2. Edmonds, C., Bennett, M., Lippmann, J., & Mitchell, S. (2015). Diving and subaquatic medicine (5th ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 9781482260120

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