Search results

  1. Dr Deco

    DCS cure using pure02 or Nitrox mix

    I would be in favor of using your air in the water and surface to use the oxygen on board. The tables allow a degree of safety and DCS should not result.:shakehead: Motion in water builds CO2 and increases risks of a convulsion.:no:
  2. Dr Deco

    down current, upwell at safety stop

    --------- Post added October 5th, 2015 at 09:50 AM ---------- I believe that redoing the stop is of some value. It will assist in the shrinkage of bubbles [to a small degree].
  3. Dr Deco

    Freediving after scuba. Any hard data?

    In my opinion, based largely on my research at NASA, concerns muscle contractions and the enlargement of tissue bubbles. (This was also suggested by E N Harvey in 1945.) Strenuous activity following diving is to be avoided. Tissue bubbles can form (or enlarge) and result in pain. Release into...
  4. Dr Deco

    TSandM -- Lynne Flaherty

    So very sorry to have read about this Thursdays Seattle Times. May God bless her.
  5. Dr Deco

    About the "no flying" period...

    This is a problem in research which has not been succesfully answered. The recommendations are based primarily on field data. Late reply is based on my computer problems.:shakehead:
  6. Dr Deco

    Paranoid about potential DCS

    Hi Loeber: As the folks have said, probably just over exertion. All the best in the future.;)
  7. Dr Deco

    new diver screw up

    Hello Dan0504: If you had played hockey right after the dives, you might have developed a problem. Hours later is OK. Divers have developed problems climbing stairs after a dive. They can provoke bubble formation.
  8. Dr Deco

    math behind divetables?

    Hello marc.collin Yes. I believe those are the book titles. [1] Basic Decompression Theory and Application. Best Publishing [2] Technical Diving in Depth. Best Publishing. Good luck.
  9. Dr Deco

    DCS or hypochondria?

    Hello Seaturtle5: As you have been told, it is probably not DCS. The time of appearance does not correspond to DCS. Dive tables have considerable safety time built into them. This is true also of computers which are derived from tables. I doubt that your earlier dives produced problems that...
  10. Dr Deco

    Driving in hills after diving?

    Hello Geoff: As Duke Dive Med says, the US Navy Diving Manual has the necessary tables for diving and then going to altitude. That said, many divers ascend small passes without much concern. Flying requires proper time constraints. If you would just as well not look up the tables, remember...
  11. Dr Deco

    Is Airflow a Factor in Computer Algorithms?

    Hi tech 2234: Yes, time and depth are the major players. The later governs the pressure of the inert gas [nitrogen] in the capillaries of the tissues. However, not all capillaries of a tissue are open at one time. The number depends on work load for muscle and connective tissues. When tables...
  12. Dr Deco

    New computer, which Algorithm

    Hi Dnaber: Tables and computers are conservative for recreational diving. They vary somewhat according to the designer's preferences. The PADI table was laboratory and open-water tested with recreational divers. Basically, however, watch your physical activity post dive as this can...
  13. Dr Deco

    skin bends?

    Hello Lidja: This problem presented late and persisted too long for a DCS problem of this nature. As others suggested, call DAN and rest your fears - which you did.:blinking:
  14. Dr Deco

    Buhlmann ZH-L16c

    Sorry to say, but I do not know. My specialty is decompression physiology but not tables. No one else has replied, either.:confused:
  15. Dr Deco

    Problems with my dive computor (Cressi Leonardo)

    Hello Freewillow: Thank you for the posting. Unfortunately, my specialty is physiology of decompression and not decompression meters. I am not able to help you, but I know that others will soon provide an answer.
  16. Dr Deco

    Refusing chamber treatment for an injured diver (Decompression illness)

    Late treatment of DCS addresses physiological pathways not involving mechanical shrinkage of gas bubbles. This usually involves repeated treatments over many days. It is a very involved process with respect to time. I can certainly imagine that the chamber operators were not interested in...
  17. Dr Deco

    Headache

    This sounds like CO2 retention.
  18. Dr Deco

    Yo-yo profiles

    Hello Readers: Yo YoProfiles I do not have any data on yo-yo profiles, eitherin the lab or the field. I have heard that shellfish divers (goeducks) inWashington State perform these and do not encounter problems. I believe the depths are 30 to 60 fsw. Tissue Bubbles...
  19. Dr Deco

    DCS in optic nerve. PFO?

    Thia does not sound like a DCS event, to me.
Back
Top Bottom