Bove and Davis' diving medicine /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Saunders,
[2004]
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| Edition: | Fourth edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- A short history of diving and diving medicine
- Diving physics
- Diving equipment
- Inert gas exchange and bubbles
- Breath-hold diving
- Mixed-gas diving
- Mechanisms and risks of decompression
- Pathophysiology of decompression sickness
- Pulmonary barotrauma
- Treatment of decompression illness
- Inert gas narcosis and high-pressure nervous syndrome
- Toxicity of oxygen, carbon dioxide, and carbon monoxide
- Hypothermia
- Near drowning
- Marine animal injuries
- Marine poisoning and intoxication
- Human performance underwater
- Medical supervision of diving operations
- Women in diving
- Diving in the elderly and the young
- Aseptic necrosis of bone
- Ear and sinus problems in diving
- Neurologic consequences of diving
- Pulmonary disorders
- Cardiovascular disorders and diving
- Diabetes and diving
- Medical evaluation for sport diving
- Medical evaluation of working divers
- U. S. Navy diving equipment and techniques