Subarachnoid hemorrhage - Should my husband do Open water course

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My husband suffered a Subarachnoid hemorrhage three years ago and was treated with coils, his surgeon discharged him later advising him he was cured - just forget it happened! Your good as new.

Do you think he can learn to dive, we are worried re pressure etc
 
shakybrainsurgeon is eminently more qualified to comment on this. But until he jumps in....

Using the word "cure" is always a bit tricky. Here, I think it meant that the coil occlusion procedure resolved the present problem of hemmorhage. I don't think it meant that there was a reversal of risk factors for recurrence.

I don't believe I'd have a problem with him learning to dive in a pool situation, maybe even in one of those large aquarium tourist/educational programs. But as for seriously picking up the sport, I'd hesitate. Because I personally equate scuba diving to remote wilderness activity -- i.e. advanced care is possibly more than an hour (the "golden hour") away -- then without good evidence to the contrary (and how can you show a negative, that something won't happen?) and my not being current on followup risk assessment protocols, I must judge conservatively and would discourage him from diving as a sport. Of course ultimately, whether he does so or not is up to him. If he choses to do so, hopefully it's with sober acknowledgment of its risks to himself and to those who accompany him.
 
Definitely have your husband get a medical evaluation and get a medical release. I would be surprised if the agencies didn't require a release before they'd train him (provided of course you told them).
 
Needless to say, you need to get personal advice from your own physicians, but generally speaking, this should not be a contraindication to diving provided there are no other issues, specifically seizures. If he is OK to drive, he should be OK to dive.

An adequately coiled aneurysm should no longer be an issue. Except in the extreme, which is not the case in OW training, the pressures involved do not affect the vascular dynamics in the head anyway.

Years out from a successfully treated SAH/aneurysm, in the absence of neurological deficits, seizures or other, untreated aneurysms, the patients can, and should, "forget" about them and live their lives.

But, of course, this is not official advice:D
 
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