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Rich,
Basically, BSACs attitude is : Inwater recompresion is a total no-no.
This may sound extreme, but their reasoning is as follows:
IWR on air has many problems. Uptake of N2 during the therapy, risk of
DCI getting worse, diver going unconscious, risk of DCI to support divers,
having enough air onsite to conduct therapy, hypothermia (especially in UK
waters!).
IWR on O2. hypothermia etc as above, risk on convulsions if depth
limits exceeded ( not too bad if patiient has a full-face mask I suppose),
and again, the amount of oxygen needed to conduct what could be (if I
remember correctly) a 3hour + therapy.
In any case, if you're diving the UK,you're not going to be *that* far
from a chamber, so putting the patient on 100% O2, and screaming for a
helicopter is a good option.
In the UK case, I'd agree with them. If I was (say) in Truk 2000 miles
from a chamber, I may reconsider.....
I'm sure there'll be one or two responses to this :-)
Safe Diving
Iain Robertson
London, UK
robertsoni@ol*.ag*.bt*.co*.uk*
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* From: owner-techdiver
* To: techdive
* Subject: Re: re Training agencies and Nitrox
* Date: Tuesday 6 December 1994 00:30
*
* On Tue, 6 Dec 1994, Brian Taylor wrote:
*
* > there are a few boneheads looking for
* > increasingly complex ways to kill themselves ( Get bent
* > take O2 go for another dive!!).
*
* So what's wrong with that? It's gotten me out of a few bad situations...
;-)
*
* Seriously though, what IS BSAC's stance on the concept of in-water
* recompression as an immediate response to DCI symptoms?
*
* Incidently, what are some of the opinions about IWR out there on this
* list? (sorry to bring up a topic that's already been discussed at length
on
* this forum, but I need fresh input) I'm especially interested in
* experiences & attempts--particularly UNsuccessful ones.
*
* Aloha,
* Rich
*
* deepreef@bi*.bi*.ha*.or*
*
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