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| Title: | Decompression sickness in a 14-year-old diver. |
| Authors: | Davis, FM |
| Keywords: | DIVER
children
pediatric
decompression illness
Treatment Outcome
case report
Recreational Diving |
| Issue Date: | 2003 |
| Publisher: | South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society |
| Citation: | SPUMS 2003 Volume 33 Number 2. |
| Abstract: | A 14-year-old boy was boat diving with three adults on a remote off-shore reef when, on entering the water, he was swept off the reef by the current, losing contact with his dive buddy. He reached the bottom at 63.8 m seawater depth. Unable to inflate his buoyancy compensator or to fin off the bottom, as he was considerably overweighted at this depth, he ditched his weight belt and made a swimming ascent. He was soon unable to control his ascent rate. He rapidly developed neurological and musculo-skeletal symptoms of decompression illness after reaching the surface requiring a complex evacuation to a recompression facility. Following a 30 m helium-oxygen treatment and a week of daily hyperbaric oxygen treatments, he made a complete recovery. This case illustrates the potential disparity between diving training agency guidelines for children and what may happen in actual diving practice. (Davis FM. Decompression sickness in a 14-year-old diver. SPUMS J 2003; 33: 75-76) |
| Description: | Journal of the South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society. |
| URI: | http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/7776 |
| ISSN: | 0813-1988 |
| Appears in Collections: | South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society Journal
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