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    Decompression theory is the study and modelling of the transfer of the inert gas component of breathing gases from the gas in the lungs to the tissues...
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  • Hypobaric decompression is the reduction in ambient pressure below the normal range of sea level atmospheric pressure. Altitude decompression is hypobaric...
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    To prevent or minimize decompression sickness, divers must properly plan and monitor decompression. Divers follow a decompression model to safely allow...
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    tissues Decompression (diving) – Pressure reduction and its effects during ascent from depth Decompression theory – Theoretical modelling of decompression physiology...
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  • Thumbnail for Haldane's decompression model
    Haldane's decompression model is a mathematical model for decompression to sea level atmospheric pressure of divers breathing compressed air at ambient...
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  • or fail to pressurize at all. Such decompression may be classed as explosive, rapid, or slow: Explosive decompression (ED) is violent and too fast for air...
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    ambient pressures. Decompression obligation for a given dive profile must be calculated and monitored to ensure that the risk of decompression sickness is controlled...
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    Most of the time surgery is eventually required and may include core decompression, osteotomy, bone grafts, or joint replacement. About 15,000 cases occur...
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    Physiology of decompression – The physiological basis for decompression theory and practice Decompression models: Bühlmann decompression algorithm – Mathematical...
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    bubbles inside the body tissues during decompression. DCS most commonly occurs during or soon after a decompression ascent from underwater diving, but can...
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    analysis of decompression status of the diver. decompression bar decompression buoy decompression chamber Hyperbaric chamber used for decompressing divers...
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  • Depending on decompression obligations, bringing the diver directly to the surface could prove equally deadly, particularly as decompression efficiency...
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  • sets are used to create decompression tables and in personal dive computers to compute no-decompression limits and decompression schedules for dives in...
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  • Ratio decompression (usually referred to in abbreviated form as ratio deco) is a technique for calculating decompression schedules for scuba divers engaged...
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  • Kidd, Canadian decompression researcher, Kidd-stubbs decompression model, DCIEM decompression tables Eric P. Kindwall – Decompression sickness treatment...
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  • Thumbnail for Thermodynamic model of decompression
    The thermodynamic model was one of the first decompression models in which decompression is controlled by the volume of gas bubbles coming out of solution...
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    area. The current also did its work." The latest reference to the decompression theory of the missing bodies was made by Lieutenant General Valeri Kamenski...
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  • Inner ear decompression sickness, (IEDCS) or audiovestibular decompression sickness is a medical condition of the inner ear caused by the formation of...
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    ratio decompression A technique for calculating decompression schedules for scuba divers engaged in deep diving without using dive tables, decompression software...
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    remaining decompression as surface decompression either after an ambient pressure ascent or after transfer under pressure from a dry bell. (decompression chambers)...
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    growth, with decompression sickness as a consequence. Partial pressure of oxygen is usually limited to 1.6 bar during in water decompression for scuba divers...
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  • Brian Andrew Hills (category Decompression researchers)
    University of Adelaide. His "thermodynamic decompression model" was one of the first models in which decompression is controlled by the volume of gas bubbles...
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    tissues Decompression (diving) – Pressure reduction and its effects during ascent from depth Decompression theory – Theoretical modelling of decompression physiology...
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  • the water to dive, until the end of all decompression and the diver has exited the water. Surface decompression may legally be part of a dive. It includes...
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  • by using decompression gases with high PO2 increases decompression efficiency and allows shorter decompression stops. Reducing decompression time can...
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  • Thumbnail for Pyle stop
    type of short, optional deep decompression stop performed by scuba divers at depths well below the first decompression stop mandated by a conventional...
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    Byford Dolphin (category Decompression accidents and incidents)
    was the site of several serious incidents, most notably an explosive decompression in 1983 that killed four divers and one dive tender, as well as badly...
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    the top of the frame. AGE aggressive decompression Decompression schedule tending to shorter overall decompression time for a given pre-ascent dive profile...
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    significant in diving because it affects the decompression requirement for a dive, so that the stop depths and decompression times used for dives at altitude are...
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    A dive computer, personal decompression computer or decompression meter is a device used by an underwater diver to measure the elapsed time and depth...
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