Decompression sickness (DCS; also called divers' disease, the bends, aerobullosis, and caisson disease) is a medical condition caused by dissolved gases...

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

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

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

analysis into the study of decompression sickness in 1982. Albert A. Bühlmann published Decompression–Decompression sickness in 1984. Bühlmann recognised...

of decompression sickness in 5.3% of cases by the U.S. Navy as reported by Powell, 2008 including isobaric decompression sickness. Decompression sickness...

equivalent decompression may result in decompression sickness. Repetitive diving, multiple ascents within a single dive, and surface decompression procedures...

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

are not generally considered barotrauma. Decompression illness is a term that includes decompression sickness and arterial gas embolism caused by lung...

conservative decompression schedule the risk of decompression sickness is significantly reduced, and the total time spent decompressing is minimised....

disorder Beriberi Decompression sickness occurs during rapid ascent, spanning 20 or more feet (typically from underwater). Decompression sickness may express...

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

maintain depth. If this happens with a significant decompression obligation, the risk of decompression sickness will be high. The CMAS Self-Rescue Diver training...

decompress divers as well as treat injuries. Pressurized tunnel boring machines: just as the original term for "the bends" or "decompression sickness"...

schedule as required. HBOT found early use in the treatment of decompression sickness, and has also shown great effectiveness in treating conditions such...

epidermal atrophy and ulceration. Cutis marmorata also occurs in decompression sickness (DCS). Although it is considered Type I DCS, which is non-neurological...

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...

The US Navy has used several decompression models from which their published decompression tables and authorized diving computer algorithms have been...

also avoid complications due to sub-clinical decompression injury. The symptoms of decompression sickness are known to be caused by damage resulting from...

buoyancy control, but when long decompression stops at specific depths are required, the risk of decompression sickness is increased by depth variations...

(33 ft) of depth. The principal conditions are: decompression illness (which covers decompression sickness and arterial gas embolism); nitrogen narcosis;...

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

profile which, according to the programmed decompression algorithm, will give a low risk of decompression sickness. A secondary function is to record the...

the tissues during and after decompression. Decompression stress does not necessarily result in decompression sickness, but it is a necessary precondition...

Haldane's decompression procedures and the associated tables developed in the early 1900s greatly reduced the incidence of decompression sickness, but did...

underwater dive time by reducing the decompression requirement, or reducing the risk of decompression sickness (also known as the bends). The two most...

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

the full symptoms thereof. Decompression sickness may also be controlled by a full-pressure suit as for altitude sickness. Barotrauma As the aircraft...

diving, and the saturation diving technique reduces the risk of decompression sickness (DCS) after long-duration deep dives. Atmospheric diving suits (ADS)...

translation was entitled Decompression-Decompression Sickness. The book was regarded as the most complete public reference on decompression calculations and was...