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Hi Bigtop, The increased red cells will increase O2 carrying capacity but most of us have saturated red cells all the time. The oxygen in your blood at pressure is higher for everyone and not impacted in any way by the number of red cells. No worries from living at higher altitude at all...

This is one that I think many will find interesting so I am not posting it to Dive Med... Mitchell SJ, Bennett MH, Bird N, Doolette DJ, Hobbs GW, Kay E, Moon RE, Neuman TS, Vann RD, Walker R, Wyatt HA. Recommendations for rescue of a submerged unresponsive compressed-gas diver. Undersea...

Hi Roger, You don't have it because there is not much out there. With funding continuing to decrease for diving research I would be surprised if much more is published anytime soon. The AAUS recently released the Sheldrake and Pollock article that relates more to scientific diving and...

Great to see that article getting some use. We worked hard to get it referenced and re-written to be useful. The wet vs dry work was done by Donald if you are just looking for the references in the list.

Hi sbroh, I recently started this process following the birth of my son. Initially I reached out to several (around 10) insurance companies for their rates. The initial estimate they would give was always comparable to the others. When I started going through the high risk activity forms...

Rubicon launched a survey in collaboration with the Divers Alert Network, Duke Anesthesiology, and the Navy Experimental Diving Unit. Our aim is to evaluate use of existing carbon dioxide (CO2) canister tracking technology within the recreation and technical diving community. Please check out...

Quick bump to this thread... We have had over 300 respondents so far and there are two more months before we close down the survey. Please ask your local dive club to put an announcement in their newsletter. The more people that respond, the greater the impact our study can have. Thanks for...

The only real guideline I can think of is: "If you can't spit, don't dive" - Lee Somers, 1986. In: Diver education series: drinking and diving. MICHU-T-86-010 The only study I can think of showed... The full abstract is here As for post dive... There was an interesting study on the use of...

We have been working with the AAUS to get their publications online for quite some time now (my fault on the delay, I can only do so much around the day job ;). Flipping through the publications we have online so far could help you get a better idea of the kinds of work being done. The...

Hi raoulsttexas, The best recent review article on DCI is in Lancet. Vann RD, Butler FK, Mitchell SJ, Moon RE. Decompression illness. Lancet. 2011 Jan 8;377(9760):153-64. PMID: 21215883 If you have a hard time accessing the article through your university, send me an email gene (dot) hobbs...

I can say without hesitation that the choice should be made with software usability in mind. Pick something that is intuitive to you and stick with it. This is based on our review of the commercial products with nitrox dives. Hobbs GW, Gault KA. Decompression Risk Evaluation of Commercially...

Did you get what you needed Kara? Just as a heads up, the UHMS library holdings can be found at Duke. Their library can handle any requests through a loan to your school.

Thank you! The whole file is here since there may have been a few link changes above. Yes, we need to use the short links when we can. The best example of why this is a problem was our site update last month. I posted this news item about the problem but basically in updating our database from...

Even Table 19-4 in the USN Manual (rev6) will give up to 10 min at 50fsw while breathing 100%. Donald's work did show that short exposures to deeper depths can work (Summaries of Donald's work). His work is also what showed us the effects of immersion, workload, and temperature as discussed...

Oh come on, I have not been away from the board *that* long. ;) Sheffield PJ and Vann RD, eds. Flying After Diving Workshop. Proceedings of the DAN 2002 Workshop. Durham, NC: Divers Alert Network; 2002. RRR ID: 5611

If I remember correctly, this was the lead up work for the recommendations for evacuation so the patients were being flown to a chamber for their treatment. I would be willing to make the jump with his data to flying with residual symptoms though. If it is not resolved, it's still DCS in my...

There is very little literature available on this available. I did add a section on this to the bottom of our suggested reading list on flying after diving. The best stats for flights with active symptoms come from: Freiberger, JJ; DeNoble, PJ; Uguccioni, DM; Vann, RD. (2002) An association...

The goal of Project Pink Tank is to improve our understanding of diver health among breast cancer survivors. The knowledge gained will be used to create a platform for future research and dive medicine consensus conferences. We are looking for participants in our study of diver health among...

A few things worth reading... Severs, YD; Lamontagne, MC. 2002. A Literature Review of Disinfectants: Effects When Used by CF Divers in Cleaning Rebreather Sets. DRDC-TORONTO-TR-2002-209 RRR ID: 4288 O'Rourke, JR. 2000. RECOMMENDATION FOR REPLACEMENT OF WESCODYNE AS A SANITIZING AGENT FOR USN...

This was one of the many stats discussed at the DAN Fatality Conference last year. The powerpoints and video from the meeting can be found here. Five of the presentations have been sent for publication in Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine and the whole proceedings are being written up now. If...