This retrospective study aims at an epidemiological description of the clinical presentation of medical problems in technical diving. It assess anthropometric data, diving experience and dive planification, clinical presentation, treatment received and pronostic to understand specificity of this community.
In recent years, the increased availability of breathing gas mixtures, together with progressive technical development of specialized diving equipment, has contributed to expansion of the diver's community. Deep and long dives expose to decompression sickness (DCS) risk and hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) is the definitive treatment. Incidence, clinical expression or prognosis of pathological events after technical diving might differ from recreational ones. A better knowledge of these specificity will facilitate risk assessment, analysis and medical care for hyperbaric physician community.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
100
Chu Brest
Brest, France
Demographic description of injured technical divers treated in French hyperbaric center
Comparison of technical diver populations according to length of hospitalization (\< 48 hours vs \> 48 hours) corresponding to treatment with simple hyperbaric oxygen therapy or requiring several consolidation sessions in view of the severity and/or intensity of symptoms.
Time frame: 15 years
Predictive factor of severity
Evaluation regarding the number of OHB treatment (reflecting the gravity if more than 2) and diving profil (breathing apparatus, maximal depth, dive total time, composition of mixed gas), demographic profile of divers (age, sex, medical conditions) and symptoms presentation.
Time frame: 15 years
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