decompression

..support, forward medical treatment areas, casualty transport vehicles, "oxygen trickle charger" for commercial and military aircraft, and hyperbaric oxygen therapy for decompression sickness, air embolism, and carbon monoxide poisoning.

..DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The formation of gas bubbles in the body resulting in gas micro embolism or decompression sickness ("bends") can cause severe pain, injury or death...

..can be compromised by microvascular gas embolism that occurs during surgery, endoscopic procedures, and in decompression sickness. The associated morbidity and mortality carry considerable human and economic impact...

..The importance of this observation is to discourage prophylactic canal decompression surgery since their is a greater likelihood of harm...

..the thorax into a bellows during CPR, thereby enabling the rescuer to manually perform active compression decompression (ACD) CPR...

..PART 2: The Cardiopulmonary Arrest protocol proposal, "Active Compression Decompression CPR and the Impedance Threshold Device (ACD/ITD CPR) for Improving Outcome in Cardiac Arrest," is a randomized ..

..PART 2: The Cardiopulmonary Arrest protocol proposal, "Active Compression Decompression CPR and the Impedance Threshold Device (ACD/ITD CPR) for Improving Outcome in Cardiac Arrest," is a randomized ..

..inadequate, include diet, jejunostomy or parenteral feeding, attention to blood glucose control, gastric decompression, reducing pyloric tone, and stimulation of residual gastric motor function with gastrokinetic drugs or ..

..surgically decompress the spinal cord following spinal cord injury (SCI) is controversial, as is the timing of decompression. Multicenter, randomized controlled studies of early surgical decompression have not been performed in humans...

..inadequate, include diet, jejunostomy or parenteral feeding, attention to blood glucose control, gastric decompression, reducing pyloric tone, and stimulation of residual gastric motor function with gastrokinetic drugs or ..

..surgically decompress the spinal cord following spinal cord injury (SCI) is controversial, as is the timing of decompression. Multicenter, randomized controlled studies of early surgical decompression have not been performed in humans...

..inadequate, include diet, jejunostomy or parenteral feeding, attention to blood glucose control, gastric decompression, reducing pyloric tone, and stimulation of residual gastric motor function with gastrokinetic drugs or ..

..This model allows biliary decompression to initiate liver repair...

..Due to the development of portal hypertension, decompression of the portal venous system has traditionally been accomplished with either a surgical shunt or a percutaneous ..

..Due to the development of portal hypertension, decompression of the portal venous system has traditionally been accomplished with either a surgical shunt or a percutaneous ..

..The proposed study of decompression craniotomy could be initiated in a relatively short time once the funding period begins...

..to lower intra-ocular pressure, systemic anti-inflammatory/immune suppression with steroids, or surgical decompression of the nerve sheath...

..most recently, the opening of a new 57,000 square foot mouse facility, The Anlyan Center (TAG), has enabled decompression of overcrowded mouse1 rooms and consolidation of SPF mice...

..the inspiratory impedance threshold device (ITD) to increase negative intrathoracic pressure during the decompression phase of sCPR, thereby doubling forward blood flow...

The Ischemic Optic Neuropathy Decompression Trial (IONDT), the first multicenter, prospective randomized controlled trial of newly diagnosed patients with non-artertic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION), found the optic nerve ..

..This approach is the combination of active compression-decompression (ACD) CPR and the impedance threshold device (ITD), a technique termed ACD+ITD CPR, which enhances vital organ ..

..This approach is the combination of active compression-decompression (ACD) CPR and the impedance threshold device (ITD), a technique termed ACD+ITD CPR, which enhances vital organ ..

..After the patient has failed conservative treatment, surgical intervention involving a mechanical decompression of the constrained space is performed...

..This will allow decompression of current investigator laboratories plus space for the already-committed recruitment of 8 additional ..

..The health related importance of this study is in defining the role of these two decompression therapies in terms of variceal bleeding control, change in liver function (encephalopathy, ascites, liver ..

..this meeting are: Real-time event understanding, Extraction of information from video, video compression and decompression, and hand and body gesture recognition...

..3 kPa during breathing of either heliox(80:20), 100% oxygen or air after decompression from an exposure to heliox at 405 kPa for one hour...

To estimate the risk of decompression sickness (DCS) for direct ascents from depth to the sea surface for personnel who are saturated with hyperbaric nitrogen, we analyzed 586 experimental air or nitrogen-based saturation dives...

Isolated inner ear decompression sickness (DCS) is recognized in deep diving involving breathing of helium-oxygen mixtures, particularly when breathing gas is switched to a nitrogen-rich mixture during decompression...

A recent workshop found that with no-decompression dives, "reversed dive profiles" (RDP) did not increase the risk of decompression sickness (DCS)...

In spite of many modifications to decompression algorithms, the incidence of decompression sickness (DCS) in scuba divers has changed very little...

b>Decompression sickness (DCS) risk following a simulated dive in H2 was lower in pigs with a native intestinal flora that metabolized H2. Pigs (n = 27; 19.4 +/- 0.2 kg body mass) were placed in a chamber that was pressurized to 22.2-25...

BACKGROUND: There are a number of reported cases of decompression sickness (DCS) with haemorrhages...

..In Malaysia it was introduced as early as the 1960's by the Royal Malaysian Navy to treat their divers for decompression illness (DCI), arterial gas embolism (AGE) and barotraumas...

Diving acclimatization refers to a reduced susceptibility to acute decompression sickness (DCS) in individuals undergoing repeated compression-decompression cycles...

INTRODUCTION: Verification of new decompression procedures has traditionally been based on observing the occurrence of decompression sickness (DCS) in test dives...

OBJECTIVES: The French Navy uses the Marine Nationale 90 (MN90) decompression tables for air dives as deep as 60 msw. The resulting incidence of decompression sickness (DCS) for deep dives (45-60 msw) is one case per 3000 dives...

..fit of an algorithm to "calibration data" gives parameter values for a "probabilistic decompression model...

The present study was initiated in order to determine the effect of decompression profiles on bubble formation following surface decompression using oxygen...

..tables utilize increased atmospheric pressures, several mixed gas combinations, and a more gradual staged decompression rate than US Navy treatment schedules. The majority of our study population (72...

..Increases in creatine kinase and an upward trend in cholesterol and glucose were observed after decompression. The levels of TTH and thyroxin went up in both subjects during exposure...

Previous trials of flying at 8,000 ft after a single 60 fsw, 55 min no-stop air dive found low decompression sickness (DCS) risk for a 11:00 preflight surface interval (PFSI)...

We compare outcomes of experimental air dives with prescriptions for ascent given by various air decompression tables. Among experimental dives compiled in the U.S...

BACKGROUND: Many occupational diving groups have substantially different diving patterns to those for which decompression schedules are validated...

..During the experiment, we studied the pressurization procedure, decompression table, and physiological functions of the divers...

..To the severest of all risks associated with diving, decompression sickness is the greatest threat...

INTRODUCTION: Divers use decompression schedules to reduce the probability of occurrence of decompression sickness when returning to the surface at the end of a dive...

Objective: To explore the effect of different degrees of denitrogenation on decompression sickness. Method: Twenty-four rabbits were randomly divided into control group, 100% oxygen inhalation 30 min group, 60 min group and 120 min group...

..6-4.8 bar gauge. Results revealed three incidents of decompression sickness all of which involved the use of compressed air...

PURPOSE: To confirm that the tear film bubbles observed after decompression from hyperbaric exposure are due to denitrogenation and to assess the time course of denitrogenation based on the number of ocular tear film bubbles...

Raised internal pressure in a distressed submarine rapidly increases the risk of decompression sickness (DCS) following submarine escape...

..of late brain infarction reported in patients who have undergone spontaneous clinical recovery; and prophylax against decompression sickness in high gas loading dives that precede accelerated ascents and omitted stage decompression.

..The survey results showed that human exposure to compressed air works with the use of EPBM was minimal and no decompression illness was reported...

..Diving to 18m produced no measurable difference in fatigue, attention levels, ability to concentrate or DHS scores, following dives using either breathing gas...

..We treated 90 patients: 72 divers (decompression sickness [DCS] = 67, arterial gas embolism [AGE] = 5), 10 hospital-associated AGE, and 8 miscellaneous ..

..The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of these inert gas levels on decompression sickness (DCS)...

INTRODUCTION: Disabled submarine survivors could achieve inert gas tissue saturation likely to cause severe decompression sickness (DCS) on surfacing. This risk increases with time and depth of exposure...

..Table, profile, and meter risks are obtained from likelihood analysis and quoted for air, nitrox, helitrox no-decompression time limits, repetitive dive tables, and selected mixed gas and repetitive profiles...

A probabilistic model was used to predict decompression sickness (DCS) outcome in pigs during exposures to hyperbaric H(2) to quantify the effects of H(2) biochemical decompression, a process in which metabolism of H(2) by intestinal ..

In H(2) biochemical decompression, H(2)-metabolizing intestinal microbes remove gas stored in tissues of animals breathing hyperbaric H(2), thereby reducing decompression sickness (DCS) risk...

The risk of decompression sickness (DCS) was modulated by varying the biochemical activity used to eliminate some of the hydrogen (H(2)) stored in the tissues of pigs (19.4 +/- 0.2 kg) during hyperbaric exposures to H(2)...

The probabilistic model of the development of decompression disease was modified by introducing the corrections into its equation that refine the dependence of the risk of the injury of tissues by gas bubbles on their blood supply and ..

..Excitability and conduction speed may be modified by the increase in hydrostatic pressure. During decompression, gaseous pulmonary embolism may increase right heart pressures and cause a paradoxical embolism may increase ..

Deep sea divers, aviators and astronauts are at risk of decompression sickness when the ambient pressure reductions exceed a critical threshold...

..harmful effects in organisms due to increased oxygen pressure and creates the risk of gas emboli during decompression. The effect of hyperbaric air exposure on free radical generation can be studied by varying the dynamics of ..

b>Decompression sickness is known to be due to the formation of bubbles in the body as a result of decompression...

..This study investigated breathing argon/oxygen and 100% oxygen gas mixtures during staged decompression prior to exposure to 3.5 psia...

INTRODUCTION: Variables that define who we are, such as age, weight and fitness level influence the risk of decompression sickness (DCS) and venous gas emboli (VGE) from diving and aviation decompressions...

..Immediately after decompression, the intestinal mesenterium was imaged, and frames were acquired digitally...

b>Decompression stress and exposure to hyperoxia may cause a reduction in transfer factor of the lung for carbon monoxide and in maximal aerobic capacity after deep saturation dives...

Models of gas bubble dynamics employed in probabilistic analyses of decompression sickness incidence in man must be theoretically consistent and simple, if they are to yield useful results without requiring excessive computations...

Models of gas bubble dynamics for studying decompression sickness have been developed by considering the bubble to be immersed in an extravascular tissue with diffusion-limited gas exchange between the bubble and the surrounding ..

..procedures developed to enable medical support to be provided rapidly to a subject at any stage of the compression decompression profile. The article also provides details of the results to date that have been obtained from this work.

..aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that increased oxygen partial pressure shortly before and during decompression from hyperbaric pressures would decrease venous gas bubble formation...

Hempleman's diffusion-based decompression theory yields two different functions; one is expressed by a simple root function and the other by a complex series function...

b>Decompression sickness in diving is recognized as a multifactorial phenomenon, depending on several factors, such as decompression rate and individual susceptibility...

Under decompression, bubbles can form in the human body, and these can be found both within the body tissues and the bloodstream...

Thirteen cases of decompression sickness (DCS) occurred during the construction of the 8-km long railway tunnel under the Great Belt in Denmark between January 1992 and February 1996...

..A special recompression treatment table for delayed pulmonary barotrauma or decompression sickness was developed by V.V. Smolin in the Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP, Russia)...