ABSTRACT

Considered an essential resource by many in the field, Diving and Subaquatic Medicine remains the leading text on diving medicine, written to fulfil the requirements of any general physician wishing to advise their patients appropriately when a diving trip is planned, for those accompanying diving expeditions or when a doctor is required to assess

chapter 1|12 pages

History of diving

chapter 2|12 pages

Physics and physiology

chapter 3|10 pages

Free diving

chapter 4|16 pages

Diving equipment

chapter 5|12 pages

Undersea environments

chapter 6|16 pages

Pulmonary barotrauma

chapter 7|22 pages

Ear barotrauma

chapter 8|12 pages

Sinus barotrauma

chapter 9|10 pages

Other barotraumas

chapter 10|16 pages

Decompression sickness: pathophysiology

chapter 11|12 pages

Decompression sickness: manifestations

chapter 12|14 pages

Decompression sickness: prevention

chapter 13|18 pages

Decompression sickness: treatment

chapter 14|20 pages

Dysbaric osteonecrosis

chapter 15|12 pages

Inert gas narcosis

chapter 16|12 pages

Hypoxia

chapter 17|16 pages

Oxygen toxicity

chapter 18|10 pages

Carbon dioxide toxicity

chapter 19|12 pages

Breathing gas preparation and contamination

chapter 20|8 pages

High-pressure neurological syndrome

chapter 21|10 pages

Drowning

chapter 23|12 pages

The management of drowning

chapter 24|6 pages

Salt water aspiration syndrome

chapter 25|12 pages

Why divers drown

chapter 26|4 pages

Seasickness (motion sickness)

chapter 27|4 pages

Thermal problems and solutions

chapter 28|10 pages

Cold and hypothermia

chapter 29|18 pages

Infections

chapter 30|410 pages

Scuba divers’ pulmonary oedema