Diving deaths - use words wisely.
Dear Editor, I have just been reading the article by Andrew McClelland in the last issue and am suffering from the horrors and sleepless nights! In case report SC 03-01, for example (the healthy  [sic] diver with a BMI of 36.5), it is reported "the deceased rapidly found it hard to swim". Was this establishing rigor mortis? The thought of "the deceased panicked and had a knife in his hands" and later, "the deceased was lunging with the knife" brings back to mind some zombie-type horror movies. Could you please give these articles a suitable warning rating?
Senior Consultant, Department of Anaesthesia and Hyperbaric Medicine, Royal Adelaide Hospital.
Roger
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Capps