The Journal of the South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society and the European Underwater and Baromedical Society

Volume 45 No. 1 March 2015

Intensive care in the hyperbaric chamber

Recognising in a is difficult

Dark chocolate before diving may be good for you

Some divers ‘bubble’ when flying after diving

Divers with a history of DCS are more likely to ‘bubble’

HBOT increases insulin sensitivity in obese males

Print Post Approved PP 100007612 ISSN 1833-3516, ABN 29 299 823 713 CONTENTS Diving and Volume 45 No. 1 March 2015 Editorials Letters to the Editor 1 Hyperbaric treatment for the critically ill patient 61 Diving injuries are (usually) no Lindell K Weaver accident 1 The Editor’s offering Peter Buzzacott Michael Davis 62 Don’t dive cold when you don’t 2 The Presidents’ pages have to David Smart and Costantino Balestra Clarke JR, Moon RE, Chimiak JM, Stinton R, Van Hoesen KB ad Lang MA Erratum Book review 3 Costantino Balestra 63 Hyperbaric indications, 13th edition Original articles Claus-Martin Muth 4 The effect of pre-dive ingestion of dark chocolate on endothelial Continuing professional function after a scuba dive Sigrid Theunissen, Costantino Balestra, Antoine Boutros, David De Bels, development François Guerrero and Peter Germonpré 10 Flying after diving: should recommendations be reviewed? In-flight 64 Drink, drugs and diving echocardiographic study in bubble-prone and bubble-resistant Christine Penny divers Danilo Cialoni, Massimo Pieri, Costantino Balestra and Alessandro Marroni Obtiuary 16 The five-minute prebreathe in evaluating carbon dioxide absorption in a closed-circuit rebreather: a randomised single-blind study 66 George B Hart, MD, FACS Carolyn Deng, Neal W Pollock, Nicholas Gant, Jacqueline A Hannam, Adam Dooley, Peter Mesley and Simon J Mitchell Reprinted from other 25 An observation of venous gas emboli in divers and susceptibility to sickness sources Ian C Gawthrope, Matthew Summers, David J Macey and David A Playford 29 The lifetimes of small arterial 30 Hyperbaric oxygen therapy increases insulin sensitivity in gas emboli, and their possible overweight men with and without type 2 diabetes connection to inner ear David Wilkinson, Mirjam Nolting, Mohd Kaisan Mahadi, Ian Chapman JM Solano-Altamirano and Saul and Leonie Heilbronn Goldman

Technical report SPUMS notices and news 37 Performance of the Baxter Infusor LV10 under hyperbaric conditions 67 SPUMS 44th Annual Scientific Iestyn Lewis, David Smart, Bebe Brown and Carol Baines Meeting 2015 67 Notice of SPUMS Annual General Meeting 21 May 2015 Physicians and critical care in hyperbaric 68 SPUMS Diploma in Diving and chambers Hyperbaric Medicine 42 Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for intensive care patients: position EUBS notices and news statement by the European Committee for Hyperbaric Medicine Daniel Mathieu, Beatrice Ratzenhofer-Komenda and Jacek Kot 69 41st EUBS Annual Scientific 47 Staffing and training issues in critical care hyperbaric medicine Meeting 2015 Jacek Kot 69 Zetterström and Patrick Musimu 50 Hyperbaric intensive care technology and equipment Awards 2014 Ian L Millar 56 A pro/con review comparing the use of mono- and multiplace hyperbaric chambers for critical care 70 Courses and meetings Folke Lind

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