Hello,
Our spherasorb vs sofnolime paper published this month in Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine can now be accessed via the following link:
Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine Journal - DHM Journal, Immediate release articles
This matter has been debated a number of times over the years. As you will see there are grounds for being cautious about the relative performance of sorb preparations.
This is the second in our series of studies on CO2 matters in rebreathers (the first was the study to determine whether a 5 minute prebreathe can reliably detect incomplete scrubbing of CO2 from a rebreather circuit published last year).
Data collection is complete or nearly so in other studies addressing: how to store a partially used CO2 scrubber ("unprotected on the shelf" vs sealed in an airtight bag); extendair cartridges vs granular sorb; and how accurately temp sticks predict CO2 breakthrough. At least some of these data will be presented at Eurotek and published in due course.
Simon M
Our spherasorb vs sofnolime paper published this month in Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine can now be accessed via the following link:
Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine Journal - DHM Journal, Immediate release articles
This matter has been debated a number of times over the years. As you will see there are grounds for being cautious about the relative performance of sorb preparations.
This is the second in our series of studies on CO2 matters in rebreathers (the first was the study to determine whether a 5 minute prebreathe can reliably detect incomplete scrubbing of CO2 from a rebreather circuit published last year).
Data collection is complete or nearly so in other studies addressing: how to store a partially used CO2 scrubber ("unprotected on the shelf" vs sealed in an airtight bag); extendair cartridges vs granular sorb; and how accurately temp sticks predict CO2 breakthrough. At least some of these data will be presented at Eurotek and published in due course.
Simon M
