Protocols for the Treatment of Decompression Sickness in US vs. in France

[BoltSnap]

Does anyone know if the protocols for the treatment of Decompression Sickness or any type of Lung Rupture due to diving are different in France when compared with the US? If a physician was trained in dive medicine in France, would he be using different procedures and protocols when he is treating an injured diver?

 

[Bratface]

Your question can be answered best by a specialist in dive medicine. Call DAN and ask them. (Diver's Alert Network 1-800-446-2671)

 

[BoltSnap]

I thought that there are top notch people in dive medicine and decompression watching this forum including DAN.

 

[Dr Deco]

---------- Post added July 1st, 2013 at 01:54 PM ----------

Hello Burhan Muntasser :

In my several decades of experience, I have noticed that most countries with a Navy and military divers have their own tables for decompression and treatment. While these may be very similar to the US Navy tables, they differ slightly such that they can put their own name on them.

Sometimes this is for convenience such that English and metric units are used as appropriate for that country. Sometimes it reflects the use of nitrox mixes or heliox mixes. More often it seems a country simply wishes to use something other than US Navy tables. Understandable.

Since the whole business is dictated by nature, there are few real variables. The treatment protocols might be somewhat different but the results will be equal. I know of no one using inadequate treatment protocols.

Dr Deco :doctor:

 

[BoltSnap]

Thanks Doc!!

I am not trying to ascertain who is better than who but I am trying to figure out if there will be great conflict if people trained in the US and people trained in France came together to work together and run a recompression chamber jointly.

 

[Dr Deco]

Hello Burhan:

I my experience, there would not be any particlar conflict.

Dr Deco

 

[BoltSnap]

Merci beaucoup!!!