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> From: Roger Lacasse <roger@ph*.mc*.ca*>
> 
>  I was expecting to ear from the experts on this topic. I'm just back from 
> a trip to France and over there, Aspirin seems to be a standard part of 
> the treatment of DCS, as standard in fact as pure O2. 
>
>  I was reading a new French magazine (Octopus No2, juin-juillet 1996 
> p14, Jacques Migueres) and the recommended dose seems to be 500 mg (as 
> long as you don't suffer from allergies). It seems that it can be taken 
> at the treatment phase but there's no word on a the usefullness of a 
> preventive dose. It's no good if the your ASA brand contains 
> "paracetamol" apparently.
>  
>  So let me ask the experts again what is the status of aspirin use in the 
> treatment of DCS in America? Time to phone up DAN?

Until one year ago (more or less), aspirin was also with O2 the standard
treatment of DCS as recommended by the FEBRAS (belgian part of CMAS). The
intended effect of aspirin was prevention of blood coagulation (one effect
of acid acetylsalicilique and not of paracetamol).

It has been supressed because of studies who have shown that aspirin has little
or no currative effect (it is too late to get the intended effect). Some studies
showed a preventive effect but at the dosis needed to achieve the result, the
problems of aspirin outweighted the advantage.

-- Jean-Marc Bourguet

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