Volume 2 No. 2, June 2001 ISSN: 1605–9204 European Journal of Underwater and Hyperbaric Medicine Official NEWSLETTER CONTENTS Impressum Overleaf EUBS Newsletter, Volume 8 No 2, Summer 2001 EUBS Executive Committee 25 Editor’s Column 25 Letters to the Editor 26 Zetterström Award Winner 2000 Physiologic Antagonism of the Sedative Action of Nitrogen Pressure by the GABAB Receptor Antagonist Saclofen in the Rat H. David & J. Abraini 27 Announcements / Meetings A Pioneer in Swedish Diving Medicine has died 32 Bandos International Course on Advanced Diving and Underwater Medicine 2001 33 Symposium on Occupational Risks in Hyperbaric Tunneling and Commercial Diving 37 UHMS Workshop 2001: Patient Safety in Hyperbaric Medicine 39 NUI International Diving Seminar 2001 40 Series of Original Papers “Back to Fundamentals” Tissue Oxygen Levels During Hyperbaric Oxygen Breathing Valerie Flook 41 Instructions to Authors Inside Back Cover EUBS Annual Scientific Meeting 2001 Back Cover 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 Germany by Druckerei Johannes May, D-68163 Mannheim EJUHM Volume 2 No. 2, June 2001 PUBLISHED quarterly by the European Underwater and Baromedical Society EUBS EDITOR Peter HJ Mueller [email protected] Speyerer Strasse 91-93, D-68163 Mannheim/Germany ASSISTANT EDITOR Hyperbaric Medicine and Clinical Applications: Till S. Mutzbauer ASSISTANT EDITOR Occupational Medicine, Compressed Air Work: Birger Neubauer ASSISTANT EDITOR Physiology and Medicine of Diving, Fitness to Dive: Kay Tetzlaff INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL BOARD Country Name e-mail Address Australia John Knight [email protected] Austria Clemens Mader [email protected] Belgium Costantino Balestra [email protected] Peter Germonpré [email protected] Denmark Ole Hyldegaard [email protected] Finland Juha Niinikoski [email protected] Seppo Sipinen [email protected] France Daniel Mathieu [email protected] Francis Wattel c/o Daniel Mathieu Germany Detlef Brock [email protected] Ulrich Carl [email protected] Jürgen Wenzel [email protected] Greece John Polychronidis [email protected] Israel Yoram Grossman [email protected] Yehuda Melamed [email protected] Italy Michael Michael [email protected] Guliano Vezzani [email protected] Latin-America Cuauthemoc Sancez [email protected] Malta Ramiro Cali-Corleo [email protected] Netherlands Leo Geeraedts [email protected] Ad van der Kleij [email protected] Norway Alf Brubakk [email protected] Jan Risberg [email protected] Slovenia Igor Mekjavic [email protected] Spain Jordi Desola-Ala [email protected] Sweden Mikael Gennser [email protected] Folke Lind [email protected] Switzerland Jörg Schmutz [email protected] Jürg Wendling [email protected] Turkey Maide Cimsit [email protected] United Kingdom David Elliott [email protected] Philip James [email protected] USA Dick Clarke [email protected] John Feldmeier [email protected] CORRESPONDING ORGANISATIONS ECHM European Committee for Hyperbaric Medicine SPUMS South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society UHMS Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society MANUSCRIPTS: see INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS on inside of back cover. COPYRIGHT: Material published in the EJUHM is copyrighted by the EUBS. All rights reserved. No part of this journal may be reproduced, displayed, or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior permission from the EDITOR. European Journal of Underwater and Hyperbaric Medicine, ISSN: 1605-9204 Volume 2 No. 2, June 2001 EUBS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE EDITOR’S COLUMN PRESIDENT Dr. Ramiro Cali-Corleo Hyperbaric Unit, St. Luke’s Hospital, G’Mangia, Malta Dear Readers! Tel.: +356-234765 Fax: +356-372484 e-mail: [email protected] Another issue of the Journal is due, and some minor improvements have been possible VICE PRESIDENT meanwhile. Matters are constantly developing, and it Dr. Noemi Bitterman seems as some EUBS Members have been Technion, P.O.Box 8174, Haifa 3308, Israel Tel.: +972-4-8347171 Fax: +972-4-8346631 overwhelmed with the task to comply to the strict e-mail: [email protected] time table that is necessary to keep up with the business of a Newsletter. Therefore you will not find IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT the usual President’s Column in this issue and no Dr. Greta Bolstad nominations for a new Member-at-Large. Peter HelPro as, N-7012 Trondheim, Norway Germonpré is dropping out after his 3 year tenure Tel.: +47-73596899 Fax: +47-73591005 e-mail: [email protected] and I’m convinced that we will unquestionably miss our Society’s Webmaster in the ExecCom! PAST PRESIDENT Dr. Juergen Wenzel The nominations and the ballot will have to Walhallstrasse 36, D-51107 Koeln, Germany be done by regular mail before the EUBS Annual Tel.: +49-2203-601 3370 Fax: +49-2203-68323 Scientific Meeting in Hamburg, 12-17 September e-mail: [email protected] 2001. The meeting’s Secretary General, Dr. Uli SECRETARY van Laak, has done o great job to cope with all the Dr. Joerg Schmutz difficulties such a task always guarantees to provide, Foundation for Hyperbaric Medicine and the brochures have been mailed to you some Kleinhuningerstrasse 177, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland time ago. Please be assured, that the deadline for Tel.: +41-61 631306 Fax: +41-61-6313006 submissions of abstracts will not be kept too concise, e-mail: [email protected] after the mail-shots had been delayed beforehand. TREASURER & MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY Mrs. Angela Randell Valerie Flook has kept her promise to Benview, Prospect Terrace continue the series “Back to Fundamentals”. Joop Port Elphinstone, Inverurie AB51 3UN, United Kingdom Madsen, who has done the review, writes: The Tel. & Fax: +44-1467-620408 subject - oxygen tensions along the capillaries e-mail: [email protected] during HBO – is important and probably often MEMBER AT LARGE 2000 overlooked under the impression of the formidable Dr. Martin Hamilton-Farrell arterial oxygen partial pressures obtained in the Hyperbaric Unit, Whipps Cross Hospital arterial blood. The paper is concise and stringent, Leytonstone, London E11 1NR, United Kingdom clearly written and easily read. Limitations of the Tel.: +44-181-5356665 Fax: +44-181-5356506 model (disregard of Bohr-effect along the e-mail: [email protected] capillaries, assumption of constant perfusion rates, MEMBER AT LARGE 1999 linear extraction along the capillary etc.) are Dr. Mikael Gennser described and their consequences discussed. I can FOA Naval Medicine, Nat. Defence Research Est. only agree with him. Thanks a lot, Valerie! S-13061 Horsfjarden, Sweden Tel.: +46-8-50263474 Fax: +46-8-50034735 The Zetterström Award winning paper e-mail: [email protected] from the Malta meeting is now available after the MEMBER AT LARGE 1998 authors had some difficulties to sumit the paper Dr. Peter Germonpré earlier. I’m sure we will find another worthy Centre for HBO-Therapy, Queen Astrid Military Hospital recipient for this award again this year and I look Rue Bruyn 200, B-1120 Brussels, Belgium forward to seeing you all in Hamburg in Tel.: +32-2-264 4868 Fax: +32-2-262 1480 September! For the latest details check out the e-mail: [email protected] EUBS website http://www.eubs.org ! NEWSLETTER EDITOR Dr. Peter HJ Mueller Best regards, HBO-Zentrum Rhein-Neckar, Diakoniekrankenhaus Speyerer Str. 91-93, D-68163 Mannheim, Germany Tel.: +49-621-8102 390 Fax: +49-621-8102 393 Peter e-mail: [email protected] - 25 - European Journal of Underwater and Hyperbaric Medicine, ISSN: 1605-9204 Volume 2 No. 2, June 2001 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Dr Mueller enjoyable meeting. Our current area of work includes two randomised controlled I should like to congratulate the trials, examining the effects of hyperbaric Editor of the new European Journal of oxygen on aspects on nervous tissue injury Underwater and Hyperbaric Medicine as I and a more complex trial involving aspects found the official newsletter, albeit the of vascular disease. copies up to press, interesting and informative and a useful link to the work Accordingly, I would be very pleased which is being undertaken by my European to hear from any other hyperbaric clinical colleagues. I have been a member of the facilities that are currently initiating any UHMS for many years and have only medical trials in which collaboration with a recently joined the EUBS after last year’s second or subsequent centre may prove to very enjoyable EUBS conference in Malta. be of benefit. This would be particularly Hyperbaric medicine being a small and pertinent to trials undertaken under the narrow banded speciality, I find auspices of the COST Action B14, because membership of such organisations and whilst I read of some initiatives in the EUBS attending hyperbaric annual scientific Journal, I have been unable to identify meetings to be a valuable, educational anyone who is currently developing such resource. research initiatives. Should any other centres interested in progressing with multi Accordingly I was very interested to centre studies, wish to contact us, they may read in the Editor’s section of the journal do so by any of the following methods: (Volume 2 No1 March 2001) on page one, a comment informing me there are several E-Mail - [email protected] multi centric studies being initiated in Europe under the auspices of the COST Fax - 01482 654033 Action B14 working group (Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy). Regrettably, I am Tel - 01482 659471 somewhat electronically challenged and have not had a lot of luck with the listed Hull Hyperbaric Unit, Hull & East Riding web sites and was wondering whether or Hospital, Lowfield Road, Anlaby, Hull, not I might use the EUBS journal newsletter England, HU10 7AZ in order to express my Unit’s interest in collaborating in any multi centred studies I should like to finish by thanking all which are being initiated under the COST of those people that have been involved in Action B14 directive.