Delayed onset pulmonary barotrauma or decompression sickness? A case report of decompression-related disorder.

A-24-yr-old male professional diver began to complain of substernal pain 3 h after a controlled ascent from a dive of less than 40 ft of sea water (fsw). The diving master who supervised his dive and the physicians who examined him on presentation suspected pulmonary barotrauma rather than decompression sickness (DCS) because he had only descended to a depth of 32 fsw. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) by U.

M-mode ultrasonic detection of microbubbles following saturation diving: a case report and proposal for a new grading system.

An M-mode ultrasound system was used to obtain a reliable method for the evaluation of microbubbles caused by decompression. When the probe is focused in the outflow tract of the right ventricle it is easy to recognize a linear configuration of the echoes caused by the microbubbles. A quantitative study of microbubbles can be done by counting the number of linear echoes per second.

Decompression sickness with subsequent lymphatic manifestation following recompression treatment: a case report in a heavy drinker.

A case of decompression sickness is described in an uniformed diver who developed lymphatic manifestations after recompression treatment. No definite contributing factors to this rare disorder were established. A brief review of cutaneous lesions in decompression sickness is also presented.