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Upper Respiratory Tract and Aural Flora of Saturation Divers J Clin Pathol: first published as 10.1136/jcp.31.8.721 on 1 August 1978. Downloaded from Journal of Clinical Pathology, 1978, 31, 721-723 Upper respiratory tract and aural flora of saturation divers D. M. JONES AND P. DAVIS From the Department ofBacteriology, Withington Hospital, Manchester M20 8LR, UK SUMMARY The conditions of helium saturation diving promote the proliferation of Gram-negative bacterial species in the external auditory meatus of divers. These changes in flora occurred in the absence of operational diving, that is, no contact with water. The colonising bacteria were auto- genous in origin and cross-colonisation was observed between divers. On return to normal atmos- pheric conditions the aural flora became predominantly Gram-positive again within 48 hours. The slow return to normal pressures by deep-sea a high ambient temperature (30°-350C), and the divers, necessary to avoid decompression sickness, relative humidity is high. restricts the period that can be maintained at depth. Underwater exploration is a relatively new indus- This problem is overcome by the saturation diving try and by its nature is extremely dangerous. It is technique whereby the divers are maintained at high important that divers remain fit during the conduct of pressure in their living quarters and are transported a saturation dive because if a diver becomes unwell to the sea bed in a detachable diving bell. The com- the extreme slowness with which decompression can copyright. pression chamber and transfer chamber are anchored be carried out means that immediate medical atten- to the deck of an oil production platform, and the tion is not readily available. Among other things, diving bell is detached and winched down to the divers may suffer from injuries to the ear, and severe required depth. On reaching the depth where they are otitis externa has resulted in termination of work to work, the divers leave the diving bell through a schedules. The high humidity and temperature of the hatch and, on completion of their work, return to the environment at saturation lead to hydration of the bell, which is then raised to the platform and locked skin of the external auditory meatus; this favours the http://jcp.bmj.com/ on to the parent compression chamber complex. proliferation of Gram-negative bacteria, which Other divers in the compression chamber can then appear to be the commonest cause of otitis externa transfer to the bell and work can continue under- among divers (Cobet et al., 1970; Wright and water in shifts. The deck compression chamber is Alexander, 1974). fitted out with toilets, showers, beds, and life-support This study is on the microbial flora of the upper systems in general, allowing divers to recuperate respiratory tract of three divers who performed a between shifts. Food and other items are passed into, simulated dive equivalent to the depth of 1000 feet on September 26, 2021 by guest. Protected or removed from, the chamber through a small (305 metres). This 'dive' was undertaken in a new pressure-locked transfer port. A team of six divers in uncontaminated chamber during the proving of a such a system could work, rest, and sleep for up to new saturation system. The divers did not, of course, three months at a time in this artificial environment. go underwater in the diving bell although they had The atmosphere within the chambers has a main- work tasks to perform to simulate actual working tained partial pressure of oxygen of around 0 3 to conditions. In this particular 'dive' the diving phase, 0-35 atmospheres. The carbon dioxide level is not where there was increasing compression, took 40 allowed to exceed 0-005 atmospheres. The pressure hours before the equivalent depth of 305 metres was of the atmosphere has to be increased to an equiva- attained. Conditions at this depth were then main- lence of the pressure at which the work has to be tained for 50 hours and this was followed by a performed. The steady partial pressure of oxygen is decompression phase which took approximately 12 maintained by adding increasing amounts of helium days. to the breathing mixture. It is necessary to maintain Material and methods Received for publication 5 January 1978 Initially, the divers had a rigorous physical exami- 721 J Clin Pathol: first published as 10.1136/jcp.31.8.721 on 1 August 1978. Downloaded from 722 D. M. Jones and P. Davis nation, chest x-rays, and spirometry, and they were DAYS SATURATION -2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 POST 2 14 shown how to take nose, throat, and ear swabs from DIVER A LEFT ...... 0 0 @ A AA A AA A A each other. Nose, throat, and ear swabs were taken A AA A AA A A on the two days before the dive, daily by the divers 0 00 0 themselves after maximum 'depth' had been reached, RIGHT A A A AAA A A A A and follow-up swabs were taken 48 hours and two A A AOOO 0 A A A weeks after the dive had been completed. The swabs DIVER B LEFT *O O 00* 000000- taken by the divers were passed out through the RIGHT OE* u....v transfer port to be plated on to blood agar and MacConkey agar. Blood agar settle plates were put DIVER C LEFT a0 00 00 0 0 0 0 NT NT out in various parts of the chamber by the divers on A A A A RIGHT 00 0 0 0 0 0 0D six days of the dive. The plates were removed * *U through the air-lock and left untouched for 30 Fig. 1 Gram-negative bacterial species isolatedfrom minutes to allow dissolved helium to escape from the ears: 0 Proteus mirabilis; A Klebsiella oxytocum; agar. Occasionally the escape of gas was too vigorous A Pseudomonas sp; 0 Acinetobacter anitratum; and the plates were disrupted. At the conclusion, * Escherichia coli (a); F Escherichia coli (b). when the divers left the chamber, environmental samples were taken with swabs and impression cul- days in saturation. Two days after the saturation dive tures. Any Gram-negative bacteria were characterised had been completed the aural flora of two divers by routine biochemical methods, and all isolations of was predominantly Gram positive again but K. Staphylococcus aureus were bacteriophage typed. oxytocum was isolated from the right ear of diver A. Proteus strains were compared by the Dienes phe- The findings were similar two weeks later. Diver C nomenon. was not available for examination. The divers did not experience symptoms of otitis externa during the Results simulated dive. copyright. NASAL FLORA ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Diver A was an established nasal carrier of Staph. The number of bacteria settling from the air rose aureus (29/52 + ), and this was isolated from his nose throughout the dive (Fig. 2) and most were coagulase- throughout the period. Diver B was not a staphy- negative staphylococci and micrococci. Gram- lococcal carrier initially, but after 10 days in satura- negative species were isolated in small numbers and tion he acquired Staph. aureus (29/52+) and con- included some of the Gram-negative species isolated tinued to carry for the rest of the period of observa- from the ears of the divers, for example, E. coli, http://jcp.bmj.com/ tion, including the post-dive swab. Diver C carried Acinetobacter sp, Pseudomonas sp, and Pr. mirabilis. Staph. aureus (6/42+) throughout the study. There was no change in the species of the bacteria forming the normal flora of the anterior nares in any of the 300 three divers during the period of observation. 250 THROAT FLORA The nature of the throat flora of the three divers did on September 26, 2021 by guest. Protected not vary during the study. 200 EXTERNAL AUDITORY MEATUS E Significant changes in the aural flora of all three 150 divers were observed. Initially, all had a normal, H-.' predominantly Gram-positive type of bacterial flora 100 but this changed to predominantly Gram-negative organisms after four to five days in saturation (Fig. 1). Klebsiella oxytocum, Acinetobacter anitratum, 50 Proteus mirabilis, and a non-pigmented Pseudomonas sp were isolated from diver A. Diver B acquired the 0 S WIN r-- II 6m same strain of Pr. mirabilis (by Dienes) and, in 0 2 i 6 i 10 I 12 addition, in the right ear, Escherichia coli. Diver C DAYS SATURATION acquired a different strain of E. coli but was also Fig. 2 Settle plate counts during the simulated dive: colonised by the E. coli strain from diver B after 10 1 total colony count; * Gram-negative colony count. J Clin Pathol: first published as 10.1136/jcp.31.8.721 on 1 August 1978. Downloaded from Upper respiratory tract and auralflora ofsaturation divers 723 A variety of surfaces within the chamber were meatus that would predispose to the development of sampled at the termination of the dive. Both phage otitis externa. There was a rapid reversion to a types of Staph. aureus isolated from the divers were normal Gram-positive flora once the divers were in recovered, and a small number of colonies of ordinary atmospheric conditions, although one diver Acinetobacter sp and Pseudomonas sp were also was still colonised by K. oxytocum for at least 14 grown. Other organisms similar to those in the divers' days. The diving chamber itself showed only a low ears were not recovered. level of contamination with Gram-negative organ- isms at the end of the period, and perhaps this is a Discussion reflection of the fact that actual diving was not being done.
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