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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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    Physiology of decompression – The physiological basis for decompression theory and practice Decompression models: Bühlmann decompression algorithm – Mathematical...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • Versions 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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    analysis of decompression status of the diver. decompression bar decompression buoy decompression chamber Hyperbaric chamber used for decompressing divers...
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    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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    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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    tissues Decompression (diving) – Pressure reduction and its effects during ascent from depth Decompression theory – Theoretical modelling of decompression physiology...
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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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    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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    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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    conservative decompression schedule the risk of decompression sickness is significantly reduced, and the total time spent decompressing is minimised....
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    be decompression dives. The distinction is between dives for which there is no obligatory decompression stop, and dives for which the decompression planning...
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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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    Decompression theory Decompression models: Bühlmann decompression algorithm Haldane's decompression model Reduced gradient bubble model Thalmann algorithm...
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    dive Decompression stress – Combined influences on formation of decompression gas bubbles Decompression theory – Theoretical modelling of decompression physiology...
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    Trim weights Weight belt Decompression equipment Decompression buoy Decompression chamber Decompression cylinder Decompression trapeze Dive computer Diving...
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