Delayed treatment of dysbarism: a retrospective review of 50 cases.
Fifty cases of decompression sickness are reviewed in which recompression treatment was delayed for 12 hours or longer after the onset of dysbaric symptoms. Twenty-four patients (48%) had pain only. The other 26 patients (52%) had more serious decompression sickness; two patients may have had air embolisms. Ninety percent of the patients recovered either completely (66%) or substantially (24%) with recompression and associated treatment, although standard recompression protocols had to be lengthened in many of the cases.
D000328:Adult; D003665:Decompression Sickness / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*; D004618:Embolism, Air / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013997:Time Factors