title: Diving medicine.
abstract: Although the diving community attempts to train and educate its members with regard to the dangers of the deep, there are still a significant number of individuals each year who need treatment for painful and life-threatening illness incurred as a result of the dive. The emergency physician needs to identify these individuals quickly, stabilize them, and refer and transport as soon as possible to a recompression chamber.
authors.affiliation: University of Maryland Emergency Medicine Residency, Baltimore.
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Jerrard
mesh_terms: D001469:Barotrauma / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000628:therapy; D003665:Decompression Sickness / Q000150:complications / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D004242:Diving / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000293:injuries; D004618:Embolism, Air / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D004630:Emergencies; D006801:Humans; D002542:Intracranial Embolism and Thrombosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*