Close Call | Lessons for Life
A likely case of immersion pulmonary edema leads to a dive emergency
www.scubadiving.com
Derek immediately brought Rhonda to the surface. During the ascent, Rhonda’s regulator fell from her mouth. Derek attempted to put it back in Rhonda’s mouth, but it wouldn’t stay in place.
As soon as they reached the surface the dive crew helped get Rhonda back on the boat and initiated the diver recall system to bring all of the divers back on board. Rhonda was still unresponsive on the boat, and the crew immediately began CPR. Rhonda briefly regained consciousness, vomited and lost consciousness again. However, she continued breathing on her own. At the dock, emergency medical services evacuated her to a local emergency department, where she received life-saving treatment."
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If you are assisting a diver to the surface—as Derek did in this situation—do so safely. Make a normal ascent and complete any obligatory decompression stops along the way. Triggering a case of decompression sickness on top of the IPE would only make matters worse.
I think the above 2 quotes from the article are interesting. I'm curious what the views are on continue to do decompression stops with an unresponsive and not breathing diver, versus blowing the deco off and getting the diver to a place where they can start to receive medical care.