title: [Results of the psychophysiological investigations of female test-subjects during long-term stay in pressurized chamber under the regime of therapeutic recompression].
abstract: IBMP has developed and applied protocols of therapeutic recompression of patients with delayed admission after the onset of decompression sickness or pulmonary barotraumas the occurrence of which increases among recreational divers including females. Experiment Rusalka-2004 was performed to validate a therapeutic recompression protocol with participation of female test-subjects subjected to experimental descents at air pressure of 40 and 80 m H2O (training) and of 70 m H2O (experimental) followed by 4 days at 40 to 0 m H2O in a hyperoxic (pO2 = 0.45-0.5 kgs/cm2) helium-oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere. Psychophysiological investigations during the experiment revealed only weak changes of the parameters evaluated by the well-being - activity - mood, Spilberg - Khanin, Luscher, and proof-read tests. Significant deviations in self-feeling (modified method by Dembaut - Rubinstein) and mental performance assessment (Krepelin's tables) were associated with the air pressure elevation to 40-80 m H2O both during the training and experimental descents, and symptoms of nitrogen narcosis. Based on these results, the therapeutic recompression protocol can be recommended for treatment of as males, so females.
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Andreeva
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological / Q000502:physiology*; D000328:Adult; D000399:Air Pressure; D003664:Decompression / Q000379:methods*; D004242:Diving / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006610:High Pressure Neurological Syndrome / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D011581:Psychological Tests; D013997:Time Factors