[286] UNDESERVED DECOMPRESSION ILLNESS: CASE REPORTS FROM LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY UNDERSEA AND HYPERBARIC MEDICINE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM STATEMENT: The authors present a series of five case reports outlining recent, significant,"undeserved" decompression injury experiences treated at the. Louisiana State University post-graduate medical training program in Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine. BACKGROUND / LITERATURE REVIEW: Decompression illness (DCI) is an omnipresent concern for those subjected to significant changes in ambient pressure as in underwater diving, aviation, tunneling and those receiving hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT). In the United States, the number of outpatient hyperbaric medicine clinics has grown steadily/However, a precipitous decline has been noted in both the number of hyperbaric facilities able to provide 24 hour DCI coverage and fellowship programs producing physicians trained in undersea and hyperbaric medicine. It has been argued that such a decline is an unconceming product of technological advances in diving safety such as improved diving computers.