| dc.description.abstract | Decompression sickness (DCS) is a 100% treatable occupational health hazard related to diving
activities. Physiopathology is bubbles forming in tissue or blood from dissolved Nitrogen on
ascent if time and/or depth of dive are too rapid. The Trincomalee Navy hospital has a hyperbaric
medicine facility in Sri Lanka. The first study sample included 21[males] in year 2006 and the
second study sample included 26 cases treated from January 2010 to June 2014. The first sample
included 100% DCS type 2 patients, and 86.95% of DCS type 2 cases were there in the second
sample. The mean age of the second sample was 43.8 years. 100% male divers in the first sample
and one female in the second sample diving at Maldives [type1, diving depth 18m]. Cases of
second sample had a mean bottom time of 69.5 minutes, and 57.14% of cases had more than
01hour total time. The mean diving depth of the second sample was reported as 62.95m. The
initial symptom of all cases in the first sample occurred within 6 hours after surfacing in all cases
and reached to recompression treatment 6 to 72 hrs. 76.2% cases were in age 40-50 and the rest
were in 50-60 age group. | en_US |
