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In my case, I spent approximately 1.5 hours at the hospital before getting into the chamber. During the last 30 minutes I felt like I was deteriorating rapidly - pain was appearing in more locations of my body and my responses to questions were getting slower. When I entred the hospital, I was displaying joint pain in several areas of my body after engaging in decompression diving. I had been refered to the hospital by DAN. The hangup appeared to be that I entered through the emergency room rather than walking directly to the hyperbaric treatment lab! Even though the emergency personel at this hospital had seen dcs patients before (supposedly 4 a month) they didn't seem to be very familure with accepted protocol for DCS treatment. For instance, they never put me on oxygen before the chamber treatment. (The hyperbaric physician claimed it didn't do much good.) This hospital was in the San Francisco Bay area, approximately 100 miles from Montery, a common diving location for people in that area. (In case you are wondering, denial of symptoms caused me to drive home before looking for treatment.) Aside from the obvious advantages of getting more prompt treatment, I'm of the opinion that the hospital/chamber adjacent to Montery would have provided BETTER treatment Have people had any similar experiances? (By the way, I'm working on a report of the incident including my profile. Basically, I feel that it was an "undeserved" bend on computer guided dives.) Oliver
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