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Thanks Brian. It’s a 3mm for pool training and warm water holiday diving.

Just got myself the first wetsuit (ordered online as couldn’t make it to my LDS) and I am wondering how neoprene behaves after you use it a couple if times in the water. Is it going to shrink, expand or stay the same? The reason for this question is that although if feels quite nice and snuggly...

Seahorses Diving Club, Club de Scuba Diving, Pasionati de Scufundari Don’t think they have an english version for their webpage but you can contact them at office@seahorses.ro or 0724249883 (Cristian) and get more info. Unfortunately diving is not very popular in Romania but hopefully these...

From the British Thoracic Society guidelines: “COPD carries a theoretical increased risk of barotrauma and reduced exercise tolerance. Subjects will probably be advised against diving on the basis of reduced pulmonary function (FEV1 <80% predicted)”

TMHeimer, in the ILCOR Consensus there are only a couple of take away messages that are applicable to us: 1) "We recommend that dispatchers provide chest compression–only CPR instructions to callers for adults with suspected out-of-hospital cardiac arrest(OHCA) (strong recommendation...

Ideally we should all give rescue breaths when dealing with a cardiac arrest no matter what the aetiology is. It can only improve the outcome. Not read much about this but I can imagine that the decision to recommend compression only cpr was taken after it was noticed that cpr with both rescue...

I’m a bit confused about this as people usually refer to hypoglycaemia as “diabetic shock”. I would refrain from giving a diabetic patient Insulin until you have confirmed his blood sugar level. Otherwise how do you know if he’s not hypo? Hypo kills and kills quick!

Try to sell the place at a discounted price with the buyer paying for name change, etc. You lose some money but it will be cheaper than paying full rate on your own. Good luck and enjoy it, it will be an amazing trip anyway!

IPE it’s a different story - the fluid is in a different space (alveoli) and there is no other way to get rid of it other than using diuretics/diuresis. In a drowning patient you have mechanical obstruction of the airway but at least initially you don’t have much fluid where the gas exchange...

21% even with impaired gas exchange is better than 0%.

Not an expert in diving medicine but I can’t see any reason why a hepatic adenoma would impact your fitness to dive.

Given that you had a second thrombolic event it’s likely that you will need lifelong anticoagulation. This will as of course increase your risk of bleeding as DDM also suggests.

This should really be discussed with his neurosurgeon who knows all the details. If there was any brain injury you are prone to have seizures so that’s quite a tricky one... Hope your son makes a speedy and uneventful recovery.

With the difference that the specialists know how to filter all the information available online and likely use peer reviewed sources like Uptodate rather than Wiki.

Forgot the quote - it was supposed to be a reply to OP.

Wow, this is such a selfish way of seeing things. I’m sure you were born a diver and before birth you actually “breathe” from a regulator insted of your mother umbilical cord. Why don’t you go an rent your own boat and your own DM and let us, the rest, enjoy our life?

Don’t know what to say, maybe it’s my personality but I would prefer to crack all your ribs and restart your heart. You can sue me after, at least I can go asleep peacefully knowing that I did everything to save your life. And I would do that on a diving site or in the street.

Nobody can sue you for broken ribs during CPR - it’s like suing a surgeon for cutting your skin while doing your surgery. Trained or untrained to deliver CPR you will invariably crack some ribs and/or the sternum and retrospective studies show an incidence of broken ribs up to 97%: Skeletal...

Don’t know how much a boat costs but not having an AED because it’s expensive feels like having a Ferrari and not affording to get an air freshener for it.

Haha, we don’t like regulations but we love regulators. Hypoxia it is indeed the most common aethiological factor but hypoxia leads to cardiac arrhythmia. On top of that you’ll have hypothermia and electrolytes abnormalities which can also lead to arrhythmia. My point was that you can treat...