| Scuba diving is considered by many to be just | | | | people who practice the sport while something |
| another recreational sport that implies no | | | | goes wrong. Affections such as hypoxia can |
| risks but only having fun while swimming | | | | occur when people don't use the pure-oxygen |
| under water. The truth is that diving offers | | | | apparatus in the proper way and it implies a |
| a lot of benefits to those who practice it | | | | lack of oxygen so the patient is recommended |
| but the sport also includes various issues, | | | | to inhale pure oxygen among other treatments. |
| from accidents that can happen under water to | | | | Hyperoxia caused by the excess of Oxygen or |
| physical conditions. Some may say that scuba | | | | hypercapnia characterized by CO2 toxicity are |
| diving medicine is a complicated domain but | | | | some other complications that can occur when |
| no matter how difficult it can be, the | | | | it comes to compression while scuba diving. |
| instructors and the divers should be aware of | | | | |
| many of the major points that scuba diving | | | | The decompression of dissolved gases can also |
| medicine brings to our attention. | | | | be a major concern for divers and scuba |
| | | | diving medicine comes with treatment in these |
| Our organisms suffer a number of | | | | cases too. The affection is named the |
| modifications when they are under the waters | | | | decompression sickness and the symptoms are |
| at various depths. Compression is one of the | | | | improved with the help of a chamber for |
| things you will have to deal with while | | | | decompression. |
| swimming for scuba diving. From this point of | | | | |
| view, the speed of descent and the depth of | | | | The differences of the pressure under water |
| the diving are very important factors. In | | | | can be very harmful to the diver if he or she |
| order to be properly prepared to visit the | | | | is not able to handle the equipment in the |
| world that you can find at various depths | | | | proper way or when other complications occur. |
| under the waters you need to know how to | | | | These are some of the cases where scuba |
| adapt to the conditions that you will find | | | | diving medicine does its work. Years of |
| there. You will confront with various water | | | | research made the domain reach a point where |
| pressures so you must be able to manage with | | | | it can solve many major affections caused by |
| the equipment so you will breathe | | | | improper scuba diving. Besides the physical |
| correspondingly with the depth you are at. | | | | state of the individual, the psychological |
| The purity of the oxygen you breathe under | | | | state is important as well as situations such |
| water should vary according to the depths; | | | | as being panicked under the water can lead to |
| otherwise, you can end up by confronting with | | | | harmful things for that person. for both |
| some unwanted complications. | | | | physical and psychological problems that may |
| | | | occur while practicing this sport, scuba |
| Scuba diving medicine comes to help with | | | | diving medicine can bring the needed |
| diverse problems and diseases that can affect | | | | solutions. |