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Fascinating. While I have, and use, a portable doppler, on divers it shows bubbles, not DCS. And while I have looked carefully in thousands of eyes, I've never seen bubbles in tears - or looked for them. On your next boat, if you see an old gray haired guy grabbing divers coming out of the water and staring into their eyes with an ophthalmoscope, that'll be me, justifying why my trip to Oz last year was deductible as essential medical training.... - george (MD, Duke, '72) On 11 Mar 2002, at 11:36, Dean Laffan wrote: > on 10/3/02 6:28 AM, Steve Schultz at se2schul@st*.ma*.uw*.ca* > wrote: > > > I took this from the french tech list. Anyone have more info? > SNIP > > > NEW TEST FOR DECOMPRESSION ILLNESS > > Doctors at the University of New South Wales > > Department of Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine claim to > > have discovered a simple method of identifying > > decompression illness. > > Research carried out on scuba divers revealed that > > after every dive between one and three bubbles are > > visible in the fluid that lubricates the eyeball. These > > are visible in the tear film in the lower eyelid. In case of > > divers with decompression illness, between 20 and 30 > > bubbles can be observed. > > "We hope that a remote doctor, suspicious that a > > patient may have the bends, will be able to do a > > simple,inexpensive examination of the patient's tear film. > > Based on the number of air bubbles, they will then be > > able to make a decision on whether the patient needs to > > be flown out for further treatment," said Dr Bennett, the > > report's author. > > Monday 4 March, 2002 > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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