TY - JOUR
T1 - Management of a complex diving accident
AU - Norman, J. N.
AU - Childs, C. M.
AU - Jones, C.
AU - Smith, J. A.
AU - Ross, J.
AU - Riddle, G.
AU - MacKintosh, A.
AU - McKie, N. I.
AU - Macaulay, I. I.
AU - Fructus, X.
PY - 1979/12/1
Y1 - 1979/12/1
N2 - After the accidental ascent of a diving bell from 80 m, one diver died from pulmonary barotrauma and the other - though grossly ill - survived. After recompression therapy, this diver was tetraplegic with evidence of patchy microcirculatory damage of brain, cord, liver, kidneys, and gut. All systems eventually returned to normal, except the spinal cord, mainly because of the post-recompression phase of management, in which pharmacological doses of steroids, hyperbaric oxygen, and dextran were used. Although function returned in the upper limbs, the diver remained paraplegic.
AB - After the accidental ascent of a diving bell from 80 m, one diver died from pulmonary barotrauma and the other - though grossly ill - survived. After recompression therapy, this diver was tetraplegic with evidence of patchy microcirculatory damage of brain, cord, liver, kidneys, and gut. All systems eventually returned to normal, except the spinal cord, mainly because of the post-recompression phase of management, in which pharmacological doses of steroids, hyperbaric oxygen, and dextran were used. Although function returned in the upper limbs, the diver remained paraplegic.
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M3 - Article
C2 - 531999
AN - SCOPUS:0018743118
VL - 6
SP - 209
EP - 216
JO - Undersea Biomedical Research
JF - Undersea Biomedical Research
SN - 0093-5387
IS - 2
ER -