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| Title: | The anatomy of death in two divers. |
| Authors: | Acott, CJ |
| Keywords: | DIVERS
ACCIDENTS
fatalities
Case report
cerebral arterial gas embolism
drowning
PULMONARY BAROTRAUMA |
| Issue Date: | 2002 |
| Publisher: | South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society |
| Citation: | SPUMS 2002 Volume 32 Number 1. |
| Abstract: | Between New Year’s Day and this conference in May 2001, two divers have died in South Australia. We have a well informed Coroner in South Australia who insists that in any deaths involving divers, either I or a doctor from the Hyperbaric Unit, attends the post-mortem and directs the pathologist on what to look for. It usually assumed, and has been for many years, that novice divers probably die of cerebral arterial gas emboli (CAGE) following panic or distraction causing breath holding during ascent. More experienced divers die of many other things as well as CAGE due to pulmonary barotrauma. Some divers develop CAGE from bubbles passing through a patent foramen ovale after a fairly strenuous dive. |
| Description: | Journal of the South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society. |
| URI: | http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/7664 |
| ISSN: | 0813-1988 |
| Appears in Collections: | Undesignated Accident and Fatality Reports
South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society Journal
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