Short communication, Note
https://doi.org/10.2478/aiht-2018-69-3174
A unique case of a 70-hour decompression sickness latency
Hasan Kovačević
; Hyperbaric Medicine Polyclinic OXY1, Pula, Croatia
Julijana Franinović Marković
; Polyclinic Salus2, Pula, Croatia
Abstract
We report a unique and well-documented case of a type II decompression sickness (DCS) with a latency interval of 70 hours. It may raise divers’ awareness and help medical practitioners to keep suspect divers under close observation longer than before and identify and treat DCS accordingly.
Keywords
diving; hyperbaric oxygenation; neurological differential diagnosis; prophylactic decompression; therapeutic recompression
Hrčak ID:
213660
URI
Publication date:
20.12.2018.
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