title: [Case report: fatal diving-accident. Or: accident while diving?].
abstract: This example of a fatal diving accident shows how challenging such cases can be in pre-hospital and clinical care. There is no common mechanism in diving fatalities and more than one group of disorders coming along with decompression sickness. Diving medicine is not an element of medical education, which results in insecurity and hampers adequate therapy of diving incidents. This is aggravated by an insufficient availability of hyperbaric chambers in Germany.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Anästhesiologie und Intensivmedizin, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Deutschland. mail@dr-boettcher.de
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Böttcher
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Jüttner
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Krause
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rocha
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Koppert
mesh_terms: D000059:Accidents; D001469:Barotrauma / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D001803:Blood Transfusion; D002423:Cause of Death; D003665:Decompression Sickness / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D004242:Diving / Q000293:injuries*; D004618:Embolism, Air / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D006931:Hyperbaric Oxygenation; D007035:Hypothermia / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology / Q000523:psychology; D008478:Mediastinal Emphysema / Q000209:etiology; D010200:Panic; D011030:Pneumothorax / Q000209:etiology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed