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Diving medicine is the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of conditions caused by humans entering the undersea environment. It includes the effects on the body of pressure on gases, the diagnosis and treatment of conditions caused by marine hazards and how relationships of a diver's fitness to dive affect a diver's safety.
Hyperbaric medicine is a corollary field associated with diving, since recompression in a hyperbaric chamber is used as a treatment for two of the most significant diving related illnesses, decompression illness and arterial gas embolism.
Effects of depth and pressure
Most diving accidents or illnesses are related to the effect of depth/pressure on gases in the body; examples are decompression sickness, nitrogen narcosis, oxygen toxicity, arterial gas embolism and CO2 retention. Dysbaric osteonecrosis is an example of the effects on the bones and joints of bubbles from decreased pressure in a nitrogen saturated diver. More on [ Diving medicine ]
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Clinical Briefing: Robotic Surgery for Gynecologic Conditions and Cancer
Physicians in the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Penn are now using the latest robotic surgical systems to treat gynecologic disorders and cancers, as well as to repair and reconstruct pelvic organs and support tissue. These procedures complement the growing presence of robotic surgery at Penn in a variety of areas.
Clinical Briefing: Endobronchial Ultrasound-Guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration For Diagnosis of Thoracic Adenopathy and Lung Cancer Staging
Interventional pulmonologists at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania are using a new minimally invasive technology, endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA), to diagnose thoracic adenopathy and to stage lung cancer less invasively. EBUS-TBNA integrates ultrasonography, video-enhanced visualization and real-time echogenic needle aspiration into a single, flexible, bronchoscopy unit.
Clinical Briefing: Distraction Osteogenesis
Oral and maxillofacial surgeons at Penn were among the first to apply distraction osteogenesis to the treatment of surgical, genetic, age-related and traumatic defects of the jaws.1 Originally developed to treat patients with orthopaedic trauma or disease, distraction osteogenesis involves the use of a distraction device to gradually (1 mm per day) separate existing bone segments, creating gaps where new bone forms.
Clinical Briefing: Calypso(R) System Tracking and Target Localization during Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer
The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania is just the third institution in the country to install the Calypso(R) 4D Localization System(TM) to guide radiation therapy for prostate cancer. Calypso employs radiofrequency technology comparable to the global positioning system to continuously and precisely monitor biologically inert transponders implanted in the prostate.
Divers Alert Network - A non-profit international organization, with its emergency hotline, provides dive safety and medical information, medical research programs, first aid training programs, emergency oxygen equipment, and affordable accident insurance.
Meta Description: [ DAN - Divers Alert Network a nonprofit scuba diving and dive safety association providing expert medical advise for underwater injuries, emergency information, research, training and products. ]
Diving Medicine Online - Comprehensive information about diving and undersea medicine for the non-medical diver, the non-diving physician and the specialist. Online physicians and consultants answer questions about diving medical problems.
Meta Description: [ Updated information about diving and undersea medicine for the diver, the medical professional and an excellent reference source for the medical specialist. ]
Doc's Diving Medicine - Original articles, ongoing research and useful links related to diving and undersea medicine from the University of Washington and Dr Edmond Kay.
Meta Description: [ Original articles, ongoing research and useful links related to Diving and Undersea Medicine from the University of Washington and Dr Edmond Kay ]
European Underwater and Baromedical Society - Dedicated to the study and promotion of diving and hyperbaric medicine.
Health Link MCW - A question and answer format about scuba diving after a blood clot.
Meta Description: [ Scuba diving, by itself, does not make it any more likely to develop another blood clot.
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Hyperbaric Medicine Unit , Grampian University Hospital - Information for SCUBA divers by the Grampian University Hospitals NHS Trust Hyperbaric Medicine Unit about their services as well as treatment of the bends and CO poisoning.
Meta Description: [ Scottish Diving Medicine is the site for NHS provision of hyperbaric services for recreational SCUBA divers in and around Scotland. ]
Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society - A professional organization representing physicians, nurses and technicians in the field of hyperbaric medicine.
Underwater Medicine Associates - An educational organization devoted to diving medicine with information diving medicine, links, diving medicine textbooks and underwater photo gallery.
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Virtual Naval Hospital - U.S. Navy Diving Manual is available online in Adobe Acrobat format.
Meta Description: [ A digital library of naval medicine and military medicine and humanitarian medicine ]
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