Question Impact of bruising on DCS risk?

[Doctor Rig]

Anyone have any knowledge and/or experience with DCS (nitrogen tissue clearing) risk from having (1) muscle/tissue and/or skin bruising, and how best to understand and manage that DCS risk?

This core question relates to a local diver who has recently experienced elbow bursitis, where the elbow bursa sac is filled with fluid/blood, which ultimately will be absorbed and carried away by the circulatory system, (as I understand it).

 

[rsingler]

I'm just speculating here. But with a blood filled bursa, N2 will have just as hard a time diffusing in as diffusing out. And any bubbling there is of zero physiologic significance. Blood supply to a bursa is low.
I can see a bruise being a problem only if you acquired it during the dive, and after you had acquired an N2 load, where newly impaired circulation and impaired off-gassing might make bubbling more likely.

Diving Doc