title: Lesson of the month 1: A review of a diving emergency.
abstract: Physicians should consider barotrauma and decompression illness (DCI) in any patient presenting after a recent scuba dive, even apparently shallow dives. If and when DCI is suspected, clinicians should act without delay to transfer the patient to a recompression facility, even if diagnostic certainty has not been attained. We present a case of hyperbaric injury in an asthmatic woman who had an atypical presentation in view of the depth of dive.
authors: King's College Hospital, London, UK.
authors: Lucy
authors: L
authors: Ashken
authors: Maidstone Hospital, Maidstone, UK t.shalaby@nhs.net.
authors: Andrew
authors: A
authors: Ross-Parker
authors: Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, UK.
authors: Tamer
authors: T
authors: Shalaby
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001929:Brain Edema; D003665:Decompression Sickness; D004242:Diving / Q000009:adverse effects*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans
keywords: Barotrauma; decompression illness; scuba diving
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