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>I understand the French have a steroid based treatment for DCS hits for
>use when recompression is not available. Can anyone point me toward
>articles that might give further info?
> 
>Thx. John

This may be related to the steroid treatments given to people with spinal cord 
injuries.

I don't have specifics, but I understand that research has show a dramatic 
reduction in long term paralysis in patients who are given large doses of 
ani-inflamatory steroid drugs as soon as possible after the injury.

Evidently the bodys response to the nerve tissue damage (swelling, etc) was 
causing even more damage to the nerve tissue. The drugs supress that response.

You may want to search for articles under spinal cord injuries.

Rick Fincher
rnf@sp*.tb*.co*

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