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I recently took a MedDIVE course from Dive Rescue International. They
teach that the latest and greatest is:
The partial pressure of the nitrogen at depth pushes a greater
quantity of Nitrogen into solution. As you get older, the ability
of your aveoli to remove the Nitrogen decreases. This means that
it may take two passes through the aveoli to remove the same amount
of nitrogen that it took when you were young and spry. As the
Nitrogen builds, some of it gets caught up on "defects" in your
body (scar tissue, "kinks" in your circulatory system, etc.).
This Nitrogen forms a "Bubble Nuclei" that now builds as more
Nitrogen cruises by. This also damages the area further, creating
an area where future "Bubble Nuclei" can form. Lengthening your
clotting time would decrease the damage, but would it solve the
problem of the Nuclei forming? Thinner blood, less surface tension
less bubble nuclei?
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