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> From Undresea & Hyperbaric Medical Society publication Pressure Vol. 19,
> Number 5 Sep/Oct 1990:
> 
> "Final summary of recommendations issued from 1990 diving accident workshop
> 
> Anticoagulants. There is no scientific evidence at the present to support
> the use of any anticoagulants, including aspirin, in the treatment of diving
> injuries. Some forms of decompression sickness, for example, inner ear 
> DCS and spinal cord DCS, may have associated hemorrhage, which could be 
> worsened by the administration of anticoagulants."
>  
> That recommendation is from 1990. Does anybody know if there has been
> more recent workshop or general agreement on anticoagulants?


The Apirin is not realy an anticoagulant but an "anti-agregant plaquettaire"
use in DCS to minimizes air-hold in blood. Some french specialist says that
(Physiologie et Medecine de la Plongee-  Broussolle - edition elipse ), the use
of apirin immediatly after an accident has benefit effect, but it decreases
efficiency of 02 recompression and futur medical treatement (over 5 mg /
kilogrammes ). 

dreux philippe 
at dreux@ac*.fr*

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