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    Decompression sickness (DCS; also called divers' disease, the bends, aerobullosis, and caisson disease) is a medical condition caused by dissolved gases...
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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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    of decompression sickness in 5.3% of cases by the U.S. Navy as reported by Powell, 2008 including isobaric decompression sickness. Decompression sickness...
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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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    of solution too quickly during decompression, they form bubbles in the tissues which can cause decompression sickness ("the bends"), a harmful and potentially...
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    analysis into the study of decompression sickness in 1982. Albert A. Bühlmann published DecompressionDecompression sickness in 1984. Bühlmann recognised...
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    are not generally considered barotrauma. Decompression illness is a term that includes decompression sickness and arterial gas embolism caused by lung...
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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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    decompress divers as well as treat injuries. Pressurized tunnel boring machines: just as the original term for "the bends" or "decompression sickness"...
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    also avoid complications due to sub-clinical decompression injury. The symptoms of decompression sickness are known to be caused by damage resulting from...
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    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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  • 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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  • Decompression Illness (DCI) comprises two different conditions caused by rapid decompression of the body. These conditions present similar symptoms and...
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    buoyancy control, but when long decompression stops at specific depths are required, the risk of decompression sickness is increased by depth variations...
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    equivalent decompression may result in decompression sickness. Repetitive diving, multiple ascents within a single dive, and surface decompression procedures...
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    effect on decompression. IEDCS is known to occur during ascent after some deep dives, but the causes are uncertain. Inner ear decompression sickness is known...
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    profile which, according to the programmed decompression algorithm, will give a low risk of decompression sickness. A secondary function is to record the...
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  • disorder Beriberi Decompression sickness occurs during rapid ascent, spanning 20 or more feet (typically from underwater). Decompression sickness may express...
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    Another means by which sonar could be hurting cetaceans is a form of decompression sickness. This was first raised by necrological examinations of 14 beaked...
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    schedule as required. HBOT found early use in the treatment of decompression sickness, and has also shown great effectiveness in treating conditions such...
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    Haldane's decompression procedures and the associated tables developed in the early 1900s greatly reduced the incidence of decompression sickness, but did...
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    diving, and the saturation diving technique reduces the risk of decompression sickness (DCS) after long-duration deep dives. Atmospheric diving suits (ADS)...
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  • The US Navy has used several decompression models from which their published decompression tables and authorized diving computer algorithms have been...
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    usually obvious and may present quite differently from decompression sickness. Decompression sickness: Inert gas bubbles form in the bloodstream if the gas...
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    the full symptoms thereof. Decompression sickness may also be controlled by a full-pressure suit as for altitude sickness. Barotrauma As the aircraft...
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    linked to stroke, sleep apnea, migraine with aura, cluster headache, decompression sickness, Raynaud's phenomenon, hyperventilation syndrome, transient global...
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  • underwater dive time by reducing the decompression requirement, or reducing the risk of decompression sickness (also known as the bends). The two most...
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  • translation was entitled Decompression-Decompression Sickness. The book was regarded as the most complete public reference on decompression calculations and was...
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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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  • high-pressure gas constitutes a hazard with associated risks of decompression sickness, nitrogen narcosis, oxygen toxicity and high-pressure nervous syndrome...
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