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Diving and Subaquatic Medicine
About this book
Considered an essential resource by many in the field, Diving and Subaquatic Medicine remains the leading text on diving medicine, written to fulfil the requirements of any general physician wishing to advise their patients appropriately when a diving trip is planned, for those accompanying diving expeditions or when a doctor is required to assess
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Authors
- Contents
- List of abbreviations
- Preface and excerpts from earlier editions
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1: History of diving
- Chapter 2: Physics and physiology
- Chapter 3: Free diving
- Chapter 4: Diving equipment
- Chapter 5: Undersea environments
- Chapter 6: Pulmonary barotrauma
- Chapter 7: Ear barotrauma
- Chapter 8: Sinus barotrauma
- Chapter 9: Other barotraumas
- Chapter 10: Decompression sickness: pathophysiology
- Chapter 11: Decompression sickness: manifestations
- Chapter 12: Decompression sickness: prevention
- Chapter 13: Decompression sickness: treatment
- Chapter 14: Dysbaric osteonecrosis
- Chapter 15: Inert gas narcosis
- Chapter 16: Hypoxia
- Chapter 17: Oxygen toxicity
- Chapter 18: Carbon dioxide toxicity
- Chapter 19: Breathing gas preparation and contamination
- Chapter 20: High-pressure neurological syndrome
- Chapter 21: Drowning
- Chapter 22: Pathophysiological and clinical features of drowning
- Chapter 23: The management of drowning
- Chapter 24: Salt water aspiration syndrome
- Chapter 25: Why divers drown
- Chapter 26: Seasickness (motion sickness)
- Chapter 27: Thermal problems and solutions
- Chapter 28: Cold and hypothermia
- Chapter 29: Infections
- Chapter 30: Scuba divers’ pulmonary oedema
- Chapter 31: Trauma from marine creatures
- Chapter 32: Venomous marine animals*
- Chapter 33: Fish poisoning
- Chapter 34: Underwater explosions
- Chapter 35: The ear and diving: anatomy and physiology
- Chapter 36: The ear and diving: investigations
- Chapter 37: The ear and diving: hearing loss
- Chapter 38: The ear and diving: vertigo and disorientation
- Chapter 39: Cardiac problems and sudden death
- Chapter 40: Neurological disorders of diving
- Chapter 41: Psychological and neuropsychological disorders
- Chapter 42: Miscellaneous disorders
- Chapter 43: Drugs and diving
- Chapter 44: Long-term effects of diving
- Chapter 45: Stress responses, panic and fatigue
- Chapter 46: Why divers die: the facts and figures
- Chapter 47: Unconsciousness
- Chapter 48: First aid and emergency treatment
- Chapter 49: Oxygen therapy
- Chapter 50: Investigation of diving accidents
- Chapter 51: Investigation of diving fatalities
- Chapter 52: Medical standards for snorkel divers
- Chapter 53: Medical standards for recreational divers
- Chapter 54: Medical standards for commercial divers
- Chapter 55: Asthma
- Chapter 56: Cardiac and peripheral vascular disease
- Chapter 57: Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus
- Chapter 58: Age and diving
- Chapter 59: Diver selection
- Chapter 60: Female divers
- Chapter 61: Breath-hold diving
- Chapter 62: Technical diving
- Chapter 63: Divers with disabilities
- Chapter 64: Submarine medicine
- Chapter 65: Occupational groups
- Chapter 66: Diving in contaminated water
- Chapter 67: Deep and saturation diving
- Chapter 68: Hyperbaric equipment
- Chapter 69: Hyperbaric medicine
- Appendix A: Decompression tables
- Appendix B: US Navy recompression therapy tables
- Appendix C: Recompression therapy options
- Appendix D: Diving medical library
- Appendix E: Diving medical training
- Appendix F: Diving medical organizations and contacts
- Back Cover