Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: Rubicon Research Repository: Item 123456789/2532
Title:
Ethanol treatment for acute decompression sickness in rabbits
Authors: Yangpu District Central Hospital, Shanghai, China. Zhang, L-D, Kang, JF, Xue, HL
Keywords: decompression, alcohol
Issue Date: 1989
Abstract: Rabbits developed acute decompression sickness after staying at 6 ATA for 30 min followed by decompression to 1 ATA in 20 min or less. If the rabbits received an i.v. injection of 25% ethanol upon surfacing, all survived, whereas half the untreated control group died within 15-35 min after decompressing. In ethanol-treated animals, no bubbles were seen in blood vessels of visceral organs, muscles, and subcutaneous tissues at autopsy 60 min after treatment. Decompression reduced platelet counts markedly in all rabbits, but in the control group the count stayed low, whereas with ethanol treatment the counts had reached the precompression level after 1 h and 24 h.
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PMID: 2773158
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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: Rubicon Research Repository: Item 123456789/2574
Title:
Ethanol and venous bubbles after decompression in humans
Authors: Eckenhoff, RG, Olstad, CS
Keywords: decompression, Ethanol, human, alcohol
Issue Date: 1991
Abstract: We exposed 34 subjects to a 48-h, 6.25-msw dive, and administered ethanol (0.5-1.0 ml pure ethanol.kg-1 body weight) orally to 11 of them immediately after direct decompression. Doppler monitoring of both precordial and subclavian sites for 24 h postsurfacing revealed that all subjects from both groups had detectable bubbles, and that there was no difference in timing or magnitude between the 2 groups.
These results do not support the recently suggested role for ethanol in the treatment of decompression sickness.
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PMID: 2021020
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