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The scars caused by surgery whether it will affect the career of a technical diver
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Your question is a valid one. From a theoretical standpoint, some scarred areas, internal or external, have altered blood supply compared with the original tissue. There is a theoretical risk that these tissues may be more susceptible to bubble formation because they are less able to offgas after the increased N2 loading of technical diving.
The good news is that the physiologic impact of bubble formation inside some scar is less damaging than a bubble that is transported in a blood vessel to an important organ.
Unless @Duke Dive Medicine has studies to contribute that I am unaware of, it has not been investigated in any systematic fashion, due to the low incidence of the problem.
Most of us with your concerns (and there are quite a few), merely pad our decompression or use a lower GF Hi in planning our dives.
Diving Doc
The good news is that the physiologic impact of bubble formation inside some scar is less damaging than a bubble that is transported in a blood vessel to an important organ.
Unless @Duke Dive Medicine has studies to contribute that I am unaware of, it has not been investigated in any systematic fashion, due to the low incidence of the problem.
Most of us with your concerns (and there are quite a few), merely pad our decompression or use a lower GF Hi in planning our dives.
Diving Doc
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