Decompression Illness (DCI) comprises two different conditions caused by rapid decompression of the body. These conditions present similar symptoms and...

bubbles inside the body tissues during decompression. DCS most commonly occurs during or soon after a decompression ascent from underwater diving, but can...

Hypobaric decompression is the reduction in ambient pressure below the normal range of sea level atmospheric pressure. Altitude decompression is hypobaric...

usually obvious and may present quite differently from decompression sickness. Decompression sickness: Inert gas bubbles form in the bloodstream if the...

ratio decompression A technique for calculating decompression schedules for scuba divers engaged in deep diving without using dive tables, decompression software...

Haldane's decompression model is a mathematical model for decompression to sea level atmospheric pressure of divers breathing compressed air at ambient...

To prevent or minimize decompression sickness, divers must properly plan and monitor decompression. Divers follow a decompression model to safely allow...

Nuckols; Decompression workshop chairman's summary - RD. Vann; Pathophysiology of decompression illness - RE. Moon; Risk factors for decompression sickness...

remaining decompression as surface decompression either after an ambient pressure ascent or after transfer under pressure from a dry bell. (decompression chambers)...

effectiveness requires real-time computer processing by the diver's decompression computer. Decompression can be much reduced compared to fixed ratio gas mixes used...

continuous no-stop ascent. Decompression may be continuous or staged. A staged decompression ascent is interrupted by decompression stops at calculated depth...

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...

be, generally normal atmospheric pressure. Decompression illness in spaceflight consists of decompression sickness (DCS) and other injuries due to uncompensated...

using an increased oxygen content. decompression illness Illness caused by decompression. Includes decompression sickness and arterial gas embolism due...

diver. A dive boat will not be carrying a decompression chamber to treat a diver with decompression illness - that would normally classify it as a diving...

ambient pressures. Decompression obligation for a given dive profile must be calculated and monitored to ensure that the risk of decompression sickness is controlled...

as a treatment for two of the most significant diving-related illnesses, decompression sickness and arterial gas embolism. Diving medicine deals with...

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...

volume involved already exists prior to decompression. Barotrama can occur during both compression and decompression events. Barotrauma generally manifests...

Inner ear decompression sickness, (IEDCS) or audiovestibular decompression sickness is a medical condition of the inner ear caused by the formation of...

Most of the time surgery is eventually required and may include core decompression, osteotomy, bone grafts, or joint replacement. About 15,000 cases occur...

A dive computer, personal decompression computer or decompression meter is a device used by an underwater diver to measure the elapsed time and depth...

be decompression dives. The distinction is between dives for which there is no obligatory decompression stop, and dives for which the decompression planning...

the top of the frame. AGE aggressive decompression Decompression schedule tending to shorter overall decompression time for a given pre-ascent dive profile...

saturation decompression. Application of a bubble model in 1985 allowed successful modelling of conventional decompressions, altitude decompression, no-stop...

Exponential/linear decompression algorithm used in the 2008 US Navy decompression tables. therapeutic recompression A procedure for treating decompression sickness...

hours after a dive. The principal conditions are decompression illness (which covers decompression sickness and arterial gas embolism), nitrogen narcosis...

PMID 8760546. Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society. "Decompression Sickness or Illness and Arterial Gas Embolism". Retrieved 2011-08-21. Brubakk...

as decompression sickness and gas embolism, It is still considered the definitive treatment for these conditions. The chamber treats decompression sickness...

8,000 m (26,000 ft) Decompression (altitude) – Reduction in ambient pressure due to ascent above sea level Decompression illness – Disorders arising from...