dc.contributor.author |
Doolette, DJ |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2006-12-30T02:41:19Z |
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dc.date.available |
2006-12-30T02:41:19Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2003 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Undersea Hyperb Med. 2003 Summer;30(2):127-34. |
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dc.identifier.other |
PMID - 12964856 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/3965 |
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dc.description |
Undersea & Hyperbaric Medicine : Journal of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society, Inc. |
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dc.description.abstract |
Acclimatization to decompression stress has been reported in caisson workers and helium-oxygen divers; however the alternative notion that the risk of decompression sickness increases with successive days of diving is widespread. We examined 201 multi-day series of 2 to 29 diving days identified retrospectively in a database of occupational air dives for evidence of acclimatization or sensitization. Decompression related health status was measured using a self-administered diver health survey; resulting scores were analyzed by linear modelling. Daily diving consisted of 1-3 dives each to mean maximum depth of 17.2 (SD 3.9) meters seawater for a mean duration of 23 (SD 17) min. Daily diver health scores increased with calculated daily risk of decompression sickness but were not influenced by the order of dives in multi-day series. Poor health outcome indicated by treated decompression sickness and diver health scores > 8 occurred early in multi-day series. There was no evidence of sensitization to decompression stress whereas the timing of poor health outcomes suggests an element of acclimatization. |
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dc.description.sponsorship |
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
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dc.format.extent |
767372 bytes |
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dc.format.mimetype |
application/pdf |
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dc.language.iso |
en_US |
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dc.publisher |
Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society, Inc. |
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dc.subject |
Analysis of Variance |
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dc.subject |
Decompression Sickness/etiology/*physiopathology |
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dc.subject |
Disease Susceptibility |
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dc.subject |
Health Status |
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dc.subject |
Humans |
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dc.subject |
Occupational Diseases/etiology/*physiopathology |
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dc.subject |
Regression Analysis |
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dc.subject |
Time Factors |
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dc.title |
Health outcome following multi-day occupational air diving. |
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dc.type |
Article |
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