DIVING & SUBAQUATIC MEDICINE 3E

EDMONDS, CARL, MB BS MRCP FRACP FACOM, Formerly Director, Diving Medical Centre, Sydney, Australia; Formerly President, South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society; Consultant in Underwater Medicine to the Royal Australian Navy Lowry, Christopher, MB BS Dip-DHM FFARACS, Formerly Director, Diving Medical Centre, Sydney, Australia; Formerly Dep Med Officer in Charge, Royal Australian Navy School of Underwater Medicine; Visiting Anaesthetist, Royal North Shore Hosp. PENNEFATHER, JOHN, BSc (Hons), Formerly Scientific Officer, Royal Australian Navy, School of Underwater Medicine, Australia

FULL CONTENTS: Introduction: history of diving; Physics; Physiology; Diving equipment; The Diver and the Undersea Environment: The diver - stress responses, panic and fatigue; The female diver; Undersea environments; Why divers die - the facts and figures; Dysbaric Diving Diseases: pulmonary barotrauma; Ear, sinus and other barotrauma; Historical and physiological concepts of decompression; Decompression sickness - clincial manifestations; Treatment of decompression sickness; Dysbaric osteonecrosis; Abnormal Gas Pressures: inert gas narcosis; High-pressure neurological syndrome; Hypoxia; Oxygen toxicity; Carbon dioxide toxicity; Breathing gas contamination; Aquatic Diseases: Drowning; Cold and hypothermia; Infections; Dangerous marine creatures; Underwater explosions; Other Diving Disorders: sudden (cardiac) death syndromes; The ear and diving; Hearing loss and vertigo; Psychological and neuropsychological; Other disorders (carotid sinus syndrome, caustic cocktail, cold urticaria, dental disorders, hypothermia, musculoskeletal diseases, neurological disorders, ocular disorders, sea sickness, skin reactions, trauma); Drugs and diving; The diving Accident: unconsciousness; First aid and emergency medical treatment; Investigation of diving fatalities; Medical standards; Related Subjects: deep and saturation diving; Hyperbaric medicine; Hyperbaric equipment; Submarine medicine; Appendices: I British sub-aqua club (BSAC) decompression tables; II decompression procedures and tables from US Navy Diving Manual; III French decompression tables; IV the DCIEM sport diving tables; V US Navy recompression therapy tables; VI US Navy saturation therapy procedures and tables; VII Comex therapy tables (Cx12, Cx18 and Cx30); VIII Australian underwater oxygen table (Aust 9); IX Duke University flow chart; X Diving medical information; Index