Bent!

[Kevrumbo]

Again, IMO, Jeff Sipsey M.D. and Karl Huggins along with the entire LA County USC Medical Center team would have been more certain & expeditious in their treatment/diagnosis, even at such a remote site as the Hyperbaric Chamber on Catalina Island. . .

The USC Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber is 24 feet long, 9-1/2 feet in diameter and has two locks. The size of the Chamber allows the possibility of treating multiple patients simultaneously (to date, the maximum number of patients treated simultaneously is four) and allows room to perform CPR and Advanced Life Support for patients who arrive in cardiac arrest. The Chamber facility is an extension of the L.A. County/USC Medical Center Emergency Room and is part of the countywide Medical Alert Center (MAC).

USC Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber

 

[E-diver]

Wow, scary stuff thanks for sharing and glad you cognized it for what it was and didn't try to write it off as something minor.

 

[cool_hardware52]

Glad you are ok. I've been bent too.

Did I miss mention of the SI between dives? Also, did you follow a computer or is this ratio deco procedure for repetative dives?

Descent to descent was about 2:00

Tobin

 

[dumpsterDiver]

Descent to descent was about 2:00


Tobin

So back to back, deco dives with a little over an hour of surface interval.... No computer, but rather following ratio deco procedures?

 

[cool_hardware52]

So back to back, deco dives with a little over an hour of surface interval.... No computer, but rather following ratio deco procedures?

Effective surface interval was about 2 hours, not 1.

I do use ratio deco, and have done similar dives with similar SITs many times. None of the other divers had any problems.

What was *new* was not the deco algorithm, but the BP meds.

Tobin

 

[koozemani]

Glad you're alright!! Thanks for the detailed report.

 

[ferris213]

Thanks for the report Tobin and I'm glad to hear you're ok. It must have been reassuring to have a solid team around you.

 

[cool_hardware52]

Thanks for the report Tobin and I'm glad to hear you're ok. It must have been reassuring to have a solid team around you.

Thanks for the kind words. I am forever in the debt of my teammates, fine, qualified, caring people that I'm lucky to know.

Tobin

 

[irishsquid]

Wow, glad you're doing OK! Thanks for sharing your experience with us.

 

[Knotoncall]

Great advice to send a second diver with the casualty. Also take your dive computer. Not all chambers, even in big medical centers are trained, or equipped to treat dive accidents, some forbid treating emergencies due to regulation issues. Almost everyone will get a TT6 to start, and most chamber docs will confer with DAN.
You truly do live under a lucky star! Be careful getting back under.