Peter Germonpre

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Affiliation: Military Hospital of Base Queen Astrid
Country: Belgium

Publications

  1. ncbi Patent foramen ovale and diving
    Peter Germonpre
    Centre for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, Military Hospital Brussels, Bruynstraat 200, Brussels 1120, Belgium
    Cardiol Clin 23:97-104. 2005
  2. ncbi Evidence for increasing patency of the foramen ovale in divers
    Peter Germonpre
    Center for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, Brussels, Belgium
    Am J Cardiol 95:912-5. 2005
  3. ncbi Pre-dive vibration effect on bubble formation after a 30-m dive requiring a decompression stop
    Peter Germonpre
    Centre for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, Military Hospital Brussels, Rue Bruyn, 1 B 1120 Brussels, Belgium
    Aviat Space Environ Med 80:1044-8. 2009
  4. ncbi Passive flooding of paranasal sinuses and middle ears as a method of equalisation in extreme breath-hold diving
    Peter Germonpre
    Centre for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, Brussels, Belgium
    Br J Sports Med 45:657-9. 2011
  5. ncbi Pulmonary barotrauma in divers during emergency free ascent training: review of 124 cases
    Pierre Lafère
    Center for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, Military Hospital Queen Astrid, Brussels, Belgium
    Aviat Space Environ Med 80:371-5. 2009
  6. ncbi Ultrasound lung "comets" increase after breath-hold diving
    Kate Lambrechts
    Environmental and Occupational Physiology Laboratory, Haute Ecole Paul Henri Spaak, 91 Avenue Charles Schaller, 1160 Auderghem, Brussels, Belgium
    Eur J Appl Physiol 111:707-13. 2011
  7. ncbi Respiratory rate can be modulated by long-loop muscular reflexes, a possible factor in involuntary cessation of apnea
    Costantino Balestra
    Environmental and Occupational Physiology Laboratory, Haute Ecole Paul Henri Spaak, Pôle Universitaire Bruxelles Wallonie, Brussels, Belgium
    Diving Hyperb Med 41:3-8. 2011

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Publications7

  1. ncbi Patent foramen ovale and diving
    Peter Germonpre
    Centre for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, Military Hospital Brussels, Bruynstraat 200, Brussels 1120, Belgium
    Cardiol Clin 23:97-104. 2005
    ..Any definitive recommendations can be made only after a careful, prospective evaluation of the real relative risk for DCS and long-term cerebral damage...
  2. ncbi Evidence for increasing patency of the foramen ovale in divers
    Peter Germonpre
    Center for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, Brussels, Belgium
    Am J Cardiol 95:912-5. 2005
    ..Unexpected but significant increases in the prevalence and size of PFO were found, suggesting a possible increasing risk for decompression sickness in these divers over time...
  3. ncbi Pre-dive vibration effect on bubble formation after a 30-m dive requiring a decompression stop
    Peter Germonpre
    Centre for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, Military Hospital Brussels, Rue Bruyn, 1 B 1120 Brussels, Belgium
    Aviat Space Environ Med 80:1044-8. 2009
    ..In this work, we investigated the effects of pre-dive whole-body vibration on post-dive bubble formation...
  4. ncbi Passive flooding of paranasal sinuses and middle ears as a method of equalisation in extreme breath-hold diving
    Peter Germonpre
    Centre for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, Brussels, Belgium
    Br J Sports Med 45:657-9. 2011
    ..Using this technique, he performed a series of extreme-depth breath-hold dives in June 2005, descending to 209 m of sea water on one breath of air...
  5. ncbi Pulmonary barotrauma in divers during emergency free ascent training: review of 124 cases
    Pierre Lafère
    Center for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, Military Hospital Queen Astrid, Brussels, Belgium
    Aviat Space Environ Med 80:371-5. 2009
    ..We tried to verify this relationship and to calculate, if possible, the risk associated with normal recreational dives, training dives, and EFA training dives...
  6. ncbi Ultrasound lung "comets" increase after breath-hold diving
    Kate Lambrechts
    Environmental and Occupational Physiology Laboratory, Haute Ecole Paul Henri Spaak, 91 Avenue Charles Schaller, 1160 Auderghem, Brussels, Belgium
    Eur J Appl Physiol 111:707-13. 2011
    ..A combination of these factors may explain the observed increase in ULC scores in deep, shallow maximal and shallow dynamic apneas, whereas shallow non-maximal apneas seem to be not "ULC provoking"...
  7. ncbi Respiratory rate can be modulated by long-loop muscular reflexes, a possible factor in involuntary cessation of apnea
    Costantino Balestra
    Environmental and Occupational Physiology Laboratory, Haute Ecole Paul Henri Spaak, Pôle Universitaire Bruxelles Wallonie, Brussels, Belgium
    Diving Hyperb Med 41:3-8. 2011
    ..Several physiological (adaptive) mechanisms and some psychologic parameters, such as motivation, are also known to increase apnea time...