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To: aml@li*.ac*.uk*
Subject: Re: heliox for therapy
From: Lars_Larsson@in*.se* (Ake Larsson)
Organization: Ineq AB tel: +46(0)418-598 44
Cc: techdiver@opal.com
Date: 17 Feb 1995 10:52:33 GMT

Hi!

on the 15th of feb Ms A.M. Lawrie wrote:

>...At the weekend I was talking to a freind who has just completed an
>HSC reresher course for diving medicine. He mentioned the significant 
>advantage in using heliox for DCI first aid instead of 100% O2.

>	Apparently a number of studies have been done on rats and show that
>20% O2 + 80% He is the optimum mix to use at atmospheric pressure, but in a
>recompression chamber, variations on the O2:He ratio are more beneficial
than >O2 alone...

I Visited commander Des Gorman of the New Zealand Navy in the autumn 1992. He
was then doing a study (on divers with problems) to compare air and heliox
recompression treatments. I'm not shore about the final results, but at that
time he was very positive to heliox. Try reading the last edition of Bennet &
Elliot where D. Gorman has written a chapter on "management of diving
accidents", he might have mentioned it there.

yours 

Ake Larsson
National Defence Research Establishment, Sweden

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