[Lung edema in scuba diving].
The management of a diving-related emergency is frequently a great challenge for an emergency physician without a special diving medicine training or experiences. Almost every physician knows something about the medical therapy of diving-related accidents which are combined with a barotrauma or a decompression sickness. But there are still some rare symptoms and organ affections of diving-related emergencies which are unknown in common. In consideration of the present case of an acute diving-related lung edema we discuss the different reasons and differential diagnosis of diving emergencies.
D004242:Diving / Q000293:injuries*; D004562:Electrocardiography; D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D011654:Pulmonary Edema / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D011859:Radiography