Surf these sites: All About Hyperbaric Medicine -- Hyperbaric oxygen is a mode of therapy in which the patient breathes 100% oxygen at pressures greater than normal atmospheric (sea level) pressure Altitude Decompression Sickness -- Decompression sickness (DCS) describes a condition characterized by a variety of symptoms resulting from exposure to low barometric pressures that cause inert gases (mainly nitrogen), normally dissolved in body fluids and tissues, to come out of physical solution and form bubbles. DCS can occur during exposure to altitude (altitude DCS) or during ascent from depth (mining or diving). DAN - the Divers Alert Network -- A non-profit international dive safety organization affiliated with Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC. DAN offers dive accident assistance to medical personnel on its emergency medical hotline, non-emergency answers to medical questions for all, dive accident insurance with air ambulance and recompression chamber coverage, dive accident evaluations and statistics, and other dive safety services and equipment. DAN was founded in 1980 and is supported by the largest membership association of divers in the world, including the regional DAN affiliates throughout the world. DCS WEB Frame Set -- General information on Decompression sickness. DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS (Caisson Disease; ''''The Bends'''') - thrive@health -- Decompression sickness is a painful, sometimes life-threatening condition of blood gases. It is caused by a sudden drop in environmental pressure. Blood throughout the body is involved. Encyclopedia.com - Results for decompression sickness -- Physiological disorder caused by rapid decrease in atmospheric pressure that results in the release of nitrogen bubbles into body tissues. The bubbles cut off the oxygen supply, causing nausea, pain in the joints and abdomen, and, in severe cases, shock, paralysis, and even death. Also known as the bends, or altitude sickness, it affects divers, airplane pilots, and others working under compressed air. Use of a decompression chamber allows for a gradual reduction of pressure, preventing the accumulation of nitrogen in body tissues. Hyperbaric Services - Decompression Sickness Treatment -- Hyperbaric Services provides hyperbaric oxygen therapy services for the treatment of gas embolism, carbon monoxide poisoning, crush injury, decompression sickness, gas gangrene, anemias, lyme disease, necrotizing infections, osteomyelitis, radiation tissue damage, thermal burns, leprosy, and and inter cranial abscesses.
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