Volume 7 No. 4, December 2006 ISSN: 1605–9204 European Journal of Underwater and Hyperbaric Medicine Official NEWSLETTER CONTENTS EUBS Newsletter, Volume 13 No 4, Winter 2006 - Imprint & EUBS Executive Committee Overleaf - Editorial 73 - Important Information for EUBS Members 73 - Meeting Report 74 - Instructions to Authors Inside Back Cover Missing Papers from EUBS 2006 ASM Proceedings - Experiment on “Long Duration Immersion” in Cold Water C. Robinet et al. 75 Zetterstøm Award Winners from EUBS ASMs - 2004: Influence of SCUBA Diving on Pulmonary Bulla P. Germonpré et al. 79 - 2006: Relationship between Menstrual Cycle and DCI M. St Leger Dowse et al. 84 Corrigendum of Abstracts from EUBS 2006 ASM 87 Book Review - Handbook on Hyperbaric Medicine M. Davis 88 DISCLAIMER: All opinions expressed are given in good faith and in all cases represent the views of the writer and are not necessarily representative of the policy of the EUBS. Printed in Mannheim, Germany by Druckerei Schwoerer EJUHM Volume 7 No. 4, December 2006 PUBLISHED quarterly by the European Underwater and Baromedical Society EUBS http://www.eubs.org EDITOR Dr. med. Peter HJ Mueller P.O. Box 1225 D-76753 Bellheim/Germany [email protected] CHAIRMAN of the REVIEW BOARD: Prof. Alf O. Brubakk, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway CIRCULATION of this issue: 400 EUBS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE PRESIDENT TREASURER & MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY Prof. Alf O. Brubakk Ms. Patricia Wooding NTNU, Dept. Circulation & Imaging 35 Westmede N-7089 Trondheim, Norway Chigwell, Essex, IG7 5LR, United Kingdom Tel.: +47-73-598904 Tel. & Fax: +44-20-85001778 Fax: +47 73-597940 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] MEMBER AT LARGE 2006 VICE PRESIDENT Prof. Maide Cimsit Vacant Department Underwater and Hyperbaric Medicine Istanbul Faculty of Medicine 80620 Istanbul, Turkey Tel.: +212-5313544 e-mail: [email protected] IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT Dr. Noemi Bitterman MEMBER AT LARGE 2005 Technion, Israel Institute of Technology Dr. Armin Kemmer Technion City BG-Unfallklinik, Dept. Anaesthesiology & HBO Haifa 32000, Israel Prof. Küntscher-Str. 8 Tel.: +972-4-8294909 D-82441 Murnau, Germany Fax: +972-4-8246631 Tel.: +49-8841-482069 e-mail: [email protected] Fax: +49-8841-484600 e-mail: [email protected] PAST PRESIDENT Dr. Ramiro Cali-Corleo MEMBER AT LARGE 2004 Hyperbaric Unit, St. Luke’s Hospital Dr. Jacek Kot G’Mangia, Malta National Center for Hyperbaric Medicine Tel.: +356-21-234765 Institute of Tropical & Maritime Medicine Fax: +356-21-372484 Powstania Stycniowego 9B e-mail: [email protected] PL-81-519 Gdynia, Poland Tel.: +48-58-6225163 SECRETARY Fax: +48-58-6222789 Dr. Joerg Schmutz e-mail: [email protected] Foundation for Hyperbaric Medicine Kleinhuningerstrasse 177 JOURNAL & NEWSLETTER EDITOR CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland Dr. Peter HJ Mueller Tel.: +41-61 631306 P.O. Box 1225 Fax: +41-61-6313006 D-76753 Bellheim, Germany e-mail: [email protected] Tel.: +49-7272-74161 Fax: +49-7272-774511 e-mail: [email protected] European Journal of Underwater and Hyperbaric Medicine, ISSN: 1605-9204 Volume 7 No 4, December 2006 EDITORIAL Dear EUBS Members! from Auckland, is awaiting your submissions at [email protected]! Mike was also kind This issue arrives late at your desks, and I’m awfully enough to do a Book Review for the EJUHM, which sorry for this. As you all know, I have no secretarial you find on p. 88. support in editing the EJUHM, and my own emergency hospitalisation kept me from continuing For some time we have not been able to publish the to work on this issue in December. At the same time full papers from the Zetterstrøm Award winners at I was very grateful to hear that our new President, the Annual Scientific Meeting. Therefore I’m glad and Chairman of the Review Board of this journal, that we have in this issue not only the winner of the Prof. Alf Brubakk, is in the meantime nicely ASM 2006, Marguerite St Leger Dowse and co- recovering from his acute illness. My best wishes to workers (pp. 84-86), but also the winner from the him, I hope that we will be able to continue to nurse ASM 2004, Peter Germonpré and co-workers (p. 79- our little project, the further development of the 83). For a third paper, the winner from the ASM Euorpean Journal of Underwater and Hyperbaric 2005 Andreas Møllerlokken and co-workers, has Medicine, for many years. The President’s Column announced that they will be able to submit the full will re-appear in the next issue. paper sometime soon. Progress in the talks with SPUMS on the intention to We also have 2 abstracts from the ASM 2006 in this merge this journal with the SPUMS journal, which issue, where not the correct version had been has successfully changed its name to “Diving and submitted and the mistake was not noticed until too Hyperbaric Medicine”, has been made, however only late to make any changes (p. 87), plus one little. To get a journal indexed in Index Medicus is Minipaper that did not appear in the Proceedings quite difficult, and a lot of support from the members Book, although it had been submitted in time and and readers of a journal is necessary to have had been reviewed by the Scientific Committee (pp. enough substantial papers, originals and reviews, 75-78). Apologies from Dr. Einar Thorsen for that! before a journal will be considered to be indexed. The meeting itself was otherwise a great success as This support from the members has been very poor, you can read from Dr. Bill Hamilton’s report on page although the ones present at the General Assembly 74 and I can only congratulate our Norwegian hosts during the Annual Scientific Meetings have always for everything. expressed their willingness to submit to the EJUHM. This willingness seems to vanish when back home. Due to the delay of this issue and the present financial situation of the Society it is necessary to At this point I urge you all, if you do not want to combine the next two issues. Therefore we will submit to the EJUHM, do send your papers to publish No 1 and 2 in April/May 2007 to give Dr. “Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine” (DHM). This Adel Taher the opportunity to put some updated journal is already indexed in Embase, and more information on the Annual Scientific Meeting in scientific contributions will increase the potential to Egypt in 2007 into it. For more detailed and always get DHM into Index Medicus, and thus it will also updated information on the ASM 2007 please check become easier to merge the EJUHM into the much out the website of the meeting www.eubs2007.org stronger journal “Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine”. regularly. This would mean a great advantage and a huge step forward in the development of the EJUHM as Alf and Peter myself believe. The editor of DHM, Prof. Mike Davis A MESSAGE FROM THE TREASURER & MEMBERSHIP SECRETARIAT If anyone has not received an EUBS Membership Directory and would like one, you can email me and I will forward one on to you. Many thanks, Tricia 73 European Journal of Underwater and Hyperbaric Medicine, ISSN: 1605-9204 Volume 7 No 4, December 2006 MEETING REPORT Another great EUBS Annual Scientific Meeting 2006 By R.W. Bill Hamilton The annual meeting in Bergen met our fondest combination of both themes. In the diving category there expectations. There was lots of good diving and was some attention to the current interest in breath-hold hyperbaric science and medicine as well as a great social diving. Among the many presentations were 3 papers that program. suggested that dehydration might not predispose to decompression sickness as is generally believed. This Supeerbly organized by Arvid Hope and Einer Thorsen, was not the objective of the studies so more research is the meeting began with a reception in Haakonshallen, a needed to clear this up, but the thoughts are intriguing. magnificent stone building built by King Haakonsson in There were also suggestions enforcing the observation 1261 for his son’s wedding. The Hall is a short walk that rehydration is a lot of help in treating DCS. from the elegant Norge Hotel which was our headquarters. The walk took us along the Hanseatic Because we have to have some of our presentations as Bryggen, the characteristic image of Bergen, and past the posters, EUBS honors the best poster with the Zetterström well-known fish market. On that first day we enjoyed the Award, named in honor of the Swedish diver and inventor first of a remarkable string of 3 days of sunny weather not who pioneered the use of hydrogen as a diving gas. This really characteristic of Bergen. We were greeted by a year the award went to Marguerite St.Leger Dowse and couple of brisk drummers as we approached the Hall. We colleagues for their paper on the relationship between enjoyed a glass of champagne and a nice spread of decompression illness and the menstrual cycle. Norwegian delicacies as we greeted old friends. This was especially rewarding for me personally because I had Although the first two evening events were hard acts to spent a lot of time in Norway beginning almost 40 years follow, the Banquet made a magnificent effort. It was at ago, and it was great do see many old friends who don’t the Floeien Folkerestaurant, which is up the mountain on usually go to far away places for meetings. On the walk the northeast side of Bergen. To get there we had to ride back to the Norge we enjoyed another treat, a brilliant full the funicular railroad Floeibannen, which the old moon that had the sky all to itself, with no clouds at all! Begensers among us had ridden many times.