Future of Diving: 100 Years of Haldane and Beyond

摘要

The symposium results of The Future of Diving: 100 Years of Haldane and Beyond, convened by the Baromedical and Environmental Physiology Group of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 1819 December 2008, in Trondheim, Norway, are reported in 30 papers and 3 discussion sessions in this volume. These proceedings include a wide range of environmental research studies demonstrating the breadth and diversity of decompression physiology studies. The first section treats an overview of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, John Scott Haldanes life and work and environmental physiology of the future. Subsequent proceedings papers represent findings by international workers on overarching topics of decompression physiology, decompression methodology, strategic approaches to decompression research, and environmental physiology. The volume includes contributions on clinical aspects of decompression illness, biochemical approach to decompression, the cellular stress response, and individual risk of decompression sickness and the possible effects of epigenomic variation altering gene expression; on inducing heat-shock proteins for protection against decompression sickness, lack of brain injury after decompression in rats; on exercise, endothelium and diving physiology, and animal experiments for evaluating decompression; on ultrasound decompression methodologies and the future of dive computers; on decompression research strategies, collaborative networks, and recruiting new researchers to the field; on marine mammal adaptations to avoid decompression sickness, whether diving destroys the brain, diving in space, and effects of diving on the lung; on the limits of breath-hold diving and parameters of extreme environment diving; and, on creativity in science.