It is important to have emergency oxygen available for divers suspected of having decompression sickness, lung overexpansion injuries or drowning.
Divers who suffer from decompression sickness (DCS) use pure oxygen to dissolve air bubbles in the blood and tissues and to diffuse excess nitrogen to oxygenate ischemic tissues, thereby treating the disease process.
Requires recompression of Classically, recompression was accomplished by a special chamber that allowed for a controlled increase in ambient pressure and a personal physician or technician attending to the diver involved. The number of decompression rooms available for 24-hour emergency care nationwide is declining at an alarming rate, resulting in DCS divers taking longer to travel to available rooms.
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