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From: Steven Bliim <Steven.Bliim@Mc*.co*.au*>
To: "'Wendell Grogan'" <wgrogan@dc*.ne*>, Trey <trey@ne*.co*>
Cc: terry-1@ly*.co*, "Techdiver@Aquanaut.Com" <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Subject: RE: re nitrogen elimination and oxygen
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:23:57 +1100
Wendell

"The Comex treatment tables using heliox instead of pure oxygen at the
deeper chamber stops ..."
Intriguing in what way?

Steve Bliim

-----Original Message-----
From: Wendell Grogan [mailto:wgrogan@dc*.ne*]
Sent: Monday, 13 November 2000 23:44
To: Trey
Cc: terry-1@ly*.co*; Techdiver@Aquanaut.Com
Subject: Re: re nitrogen elimination and oxygen


Just to back up this last point, its been a well established fact in
medicine
that any ppO2 over 40% for more than 24 hours has a strong potential to
cause
permanent lung damage.  When my son took a chamber ride at Duke last summer
after a minor type I bend, the doc there told me that many of their patients
have at least some lung symptoms after even the shortest table treatments.
I wonder if they would have fewer problems and better treatment if they
adopted
a schedule of more frequent air breaks.  The Comex treatment tables using
heliox
instead of pure oxygen at the deeper chamber stops are also intriguing along
this line.
Wendell G

*Trey wrote:

> Terry, even the 1.6 of 20 feet will give you a fit in the damage
department,
> and in fact pure oxygen at any partial pressure seems to have that effect,
> it just happens faster and more decisively at the higher partials, meaning
> you feel the damage on the spot whereas the lower partials take until the
> next day to realize you "burnt" your lungs.
>

"Edited for bandwidth

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