Background: Oxygen-rich breathing mixtures up to 100% are used in some underwater diving operations for several reasons. Breathing elevated oxygen partial pressures (PO) increases the risk of developing central nervous system oxygen toxicity (CNS-OT) which could impair performance or result in a seizure and subsequent drowning. We aimed to study the dynamics of the electrodermal activity (EDA) and heart rate (HR) while breathing elevated PO in the hyperbaric environment (HBO) as a possible means to predict impending CNS-OT.
Methods: EDA is recorded during 50 subject exposures (26 subjects) to evaluate CNS-OT in immersed (head out of water) exercising divers in a hyperbaric chamber breathing 100% O at 35 feet of seawater (FSW), (PO = 2.06 ATA) for up to 120 min.
Results: 32 subject exposures exhibit symptoms "definitely" or "probably" due to CNS-OT before the end of the exposure, whereas 18 do not. We obtain traditional and time-varying spectral indices (TVSymp) of EDA to determine its utility as predictive physio markers. Variations in EDA and heart rate (HR) for the last 5 min of the experiment are compared to baseline values prior to breathing O. In the subset of experiments where "definite" CNS-OT symptoms developed, we find a significant elevation in the mean ± standard deviation TVSymp value 57 ± 79 s and median of 10 s, prior to symptoms.
Conclusions: In this retrospective analysis, TVSymp may have predictive value for CNS-OT with high sensitivity (1.0) but lower specificity (0.48). Additional work is being undertaken to improve the detection algorithm.
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