Assessing Fitness to Return to Diving after Decompression Illness0

April 23rd, 2007 by admin in ARTICLES and Medicine

The DMAC in the UK, (The Diving Medical Advisory Committee) has the following ‘Guidance’ concerning the return to diving of commercial divers who have had decompression illness. These have not been updated since 1994, but appear valid for divers now. The main difference between commercial divers and sport divers is the multiday, multidive aspect of recreational diving and the ability of commercial diving to recompress immediately on the dive boat. more…

Oxygen chambers can ease cystitis0

April 7th, 2007 by admin in ARTICLES and Medicine

Spending time in a pressurised oxygen chamber can significantly reduce the symptoms of chronic cystitis.

In a clinical trial, the treatment reduced symptoms - which include bladder irritation and pelvic tenderness - by about a third in some cases, and the effects were long-lasting. more…

Beau’s lines on fingernails after deep saturation dives0

July 10th, 2006 by admin in ARTICLES and Medicine

H.Schwartz of the Hyperbaric Treatment Center at the University of Hawaii reports an interesting finding in the fingernails of saturation divers in a study done in the NEDU at Panama City Florida, USA.

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