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On Oct 6, 5:04pm, Pete Young wrote: > > >>insured group than ordinary sport divers, and how the treatment refusal rate > >>for DCS compares with the larger sport diving population...(....) > > Refused treatment for DCS? Or inability to pay for it? I don't see any > possible scenario in the UK whereby I could be refused DCS treatment, > although there might be an argument about the bill. Once again, this > is too US-centric to be relevant to this mailing list. > By treatment refusal, I had meant that the diver was refusing to be treated, NOT that a medical establishment was refusing to treat a diver. From statistics I've seen (admitidly not many), it seems that a significant number of cases where a diver believes they have suffered a DCI hit go untreated at the option of the diver. I am curious to know why, whether it is a money issue, a difficulty of evacuation issue, or just a personal issue (it will go away). I found the survey results interesting in that I would expect techdivers to be more informed about the problems with not getting treatment for a DCI hit, though the survey showed that there was a less than 100% treatment rate (though the survey defined treatment as limited to hyperbaric chamber treatment, so it may be the case that divers were not treated based on the evaluation of a physician, though they did receive professional medical attention). > Regards > > Pete -frank
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